[sdiy] Update on my arpeggiator

[Ian Fritz]

At 04:03 PM 6/3/05, Richard Wentk wrote:

>At the risk of restarting The Pointless Thread That Wouldn't Die - isn't 
>it more true that most synth waveforms are described by scope shapes 
>rather than sound?
>
>There's nothing square-sounding about a square wave, or triangle-sounding 
>about a triangle. (What does a square sound like anyway?)
>
>That aside it's not very hard to draw a spiral on a scope. Take two sines 
>in quadrature, multiple both by a descending unipolar saw LFO running at 
>some multiple of the sine period, apply to X and Y and there you are.
>
>This is more use for designing laser shows - where it looks pretty, 
>especially when made to pulse to the beat of the music - than to synth 
>DIY. But it's a standard technique, and not something esoteric. Or chaotic. :)
>
>Richard

Well said, Richard.  Smack on the money.

   Ian