[sdiy] Re: Spiral Waveforms

[Ian Fritz]

Hi Scott --

At 09:20 AM 4/12/2004, Scott Gravenhorst wrote:
> >
> >Thinking in terms of directly generating spiral waveforms I agree with
> >you.  It would be tricky.  But using the waveshaper approach -- starting
> >with a sine and distorting it with various algebraic manipulations -- isn't
> >difficult in principle.  I would say that the important question is whether
> >a simple circuit could give a useful range of dynamic waveforms.  It seems
> >worth thinking about a bit.
>
>I don't see this as conceptually different from what people already do with
>modulars, i.e., sine wave to waveshaper, or any-wave to waveshaper for that
>matter.  If the output is to be a single waveform, generated from a single
>waveform, how does the spiral come into play?

Right.

A specific kind of waveform was proposed and I showed what was meant by the 
spiral representation of it and how to implement it.  I don't know what 
else to tell you.  If you don't find it useful or if you want to implement 
it in some other way, then fine.

Shrug.

   Ian