[sdiy] Building a Better Bass Patch

[harry bissell]

Any noise on the individual waves might give rise to horrid IM
distortion. I think you'd need to filter before mixing the waves...
otoh if the cutoff was low enough on the LPF it'd do the
same thing more crudely

H^) harry

Mike I wrote:
> Hi Tim,
> Just tried it on the ESQ-1.... there's a lot of  ESQ-1 digital noise on top
> of the sine waveforms unfortunately... one of the bad aspects of that
> synth... otherwise it's quite likeable IMHO. The "sync oscillators at
> keydown" function  is on the menu accessed by pressing the Modes button.
> It's simply called "OSC-ON" or "OSC-OFF". Syncing does give a somewhat more
> powerful attack to the sound. Setting the VCF to fixed cutoff and adjusting
> it carefully removes some of the noise. Noise is much less noticeable when
> using saw, square etc waveforms.
> Cheers, Mike
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