[sdiy] Waveshaper update

[harrybissell]

Well I could answer (part of) that one  :^P

A 'ten pulser' would sound similar, but would appear to have a much wider
sweep range

H^) harry

WeAreAs1 at aol.com wrote:

> Hello Ian,
>
> Your waveshaper sounds really great (just listening to the little demo
> soundbite), and the idea is very clever.  I'm wondering two things:  What happens if
> you drive it with a hard-synced sawtooth wave?  The sound of the Five Pulser
> is kind of reminiscent of the sound of a swept hardsynced oscillator -- it
> would be interesting to see how the two sounds would interact (that is, if the 5P
> would even accept the synced wave as input.  Also, did you ever think about
> (or try) cascading two LM3914's, to make a Ten Pulser circuit?  I wonder if the
> additional pulses would make for a more detailed, more interesting, or more
> harmonically rich sound?
>
> BTW, I imagine that a properly DC level-shifted triangle would also work well
> as an input wave.  Have you tried that?
>
> Michael Bacich