[sdiy] Drone Synth

[Scott Gravenhorst]

Peter Grenader <peter at buzzclick-music.com> wrote:
>Saws?  did you say SAWS?
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>As I conscientious  harmonic objector, I take this out and out refusal to
>recogonize THE POWER OF THE SINE, my brothers...in your mention of the
>ultimate drone-doer.

But this is clearly false portrayal of the lowly sawtooth.

SPIRAL!  I SAY SPIRAL IS THE ONLY TRUE WAVEFORM!  To use any other would be a
criminal action of false portral!

>If you go this route, I highly recommend the tri to sine shaper found in
>electronotes vol. 1, the one that forces the triangle into the 'ooh-my-gawd'
>region of two diodes, then to an FET.  This is by far the best sounding sine
>shaper I've ever heard - but ya gotta make a triangle first.
>
>Can you say..258?
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>- P
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>john mahoney wrote:
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>> ...but only square waves
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>If I recall correctly, Scott Gravenhorst has used a PLL to generate saws
>from squares. Would that be useful?
> 
>He's also worked on some kind of divider for creating different intervals
>from a master (high speed) oscillator.
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>The above is from memory, perhaps Scott can add some details.
>--
>john
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> 
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Steve Allen <mailto:snd_audio at yahoo.com>
> 
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>Hello All,
> I'm looking to build a module that will be used to generate a drone tone to
>under current the main theme in a musical pieace. I've looked at using 555
>timer to CD4024 divider, a dozen of those would be cool, but not very
>flexable once tuned up.
> How about CD4046 PLL's using the divider scheme, more flexable, but only
>square waves. Hum....... A bank of Rene's CMOS VCO's ........ a little
>complex but very useful.
> Any ideas? Hope I'm not being too vague or.... well, never mind. Any and
>all ideas will be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
>   Steve
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