[sdiy] best soundign vco design?

[Peter Grenader]

My vote:  stick to triangle core. Harder to find as far as schematics
floating around the web,  but it's worth the hunt.

Scott Gravenhorst wrote:

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>> hi everyone
>> 
>> i'm trying to find a vco schematic to build. I want to build a
>> vco that has a plastic, artificial sound. a sound that is pure,
>> strong and unashamedly aritifical. like a sonic equivalent of a
>> loveheart sweet. i've been considering the asm-1 design. would
>> this have the full-on pure fatness of analogue? also i would
>> prefer if the design used easy-to-find components. maybe a
>> minimoog vco? or octave cat?
> 
> Well, the ASM-1 _is_ analogue, so I would guess that it has analogue
> fatness.  Waveshape is what determines the timbre, the ASM-1 is a
> sawtooth.  I'm not real sure how much different one sawtooth sounds
> from another.  For me, I like to have a selection of waveforms, saw,
> tri, square, pulse and sine are the most common.  The ASM-1 is highly
> rated, has a wide range, accurate tracking and is simple.  From the
> saw it is easy to derive square and pulse or pulse width modulated.
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