[sdiy] more on which VCO (low fi "electro" ones)

[Mark Romberg]

> I have no experience with that machine, but "fatness" is a really 
> difficult
> characteristic to nail down.  When I think of "fat" sound, it's not so 
> much the
> waveform of a single oscillator, rather something like two oscillators 
> that are
> at *slightly* different pitches so you get a phasing sound.  Other 
> people might
> say "fat" is something else altogether.

'fatness' in an analog synth is multiple oscillators at or near the 
same frequency, like you say.  the fatness comes from the fact that the 
amplitude of a given frequency is greater (the two signals are mixed 
slightly and build on each other).  this is why the minimoog sounds so 
fat: three oscillators.

have nice days.