[sdiy] How to make a continuously variable wave LFO or VCO

[Tim Parkhurst]

On 9/27/06, Gene Stopp <gene at ixiacom.com> wrote:
> Nope, no triangles on a Multimoog. You want dull overtones ya gotta use the VCF to quiet things down.
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> I brought mine to the workbench for the bass boost mod recently and set it up afterwards to mess with it. Let me reiterate everybody what a vastly underrated machine this is (Multimoog, not Micromoog)!!! I tweaked up all the trimpots and let me tell you boys you can get a huge range of different sounds in a flash. Want VCO's at a fifth? Slam the detune to the right. Want VCO's at a forth? Slam detune to the left. Want perfect unison? Put detune at 12 o'clock (there's a trimmer to make 12 o'clock perfect unison). A little slop makes the perfect amount of beating. Then sub-octs for the 3-VCO sound if you want. Aftertouch on pitch and you can do wholestep bends with vibrato if you wiggle your finger. It's almost as fast as presets but you're doing all the work, and a lot more organic. Really makes your patch-brain work full steam, which somehow translates to better solos. Especially through a space echo... I'm going to a jam on Saturday and by golly I'm taking this thing alon!
 g.
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> - Gene
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Now if it only had a third VCO, it might sound as cool as a 2600 (ducks).

But seriously folks, I always liked the mod routings and the panel
layout of the Multimoog, but they are very rare beasts from what I've
seen. I'd also hear they had some reliability problems (esp ribbon and
pressure sense pieces), but I've always wanted to poke around with
one. Never quite understood the fascination with the Micro or the
other inexpensive single VCO Moogs, but the Multi seemed to have the
best combination of old Minimoog power and new(er) Moog mod routings.
Of course, if you had to have presets, there was the Minitmoog (like a
Pro Soloist but with two VCOs - very VERY rare and also had pressure
sensor problems). Any other Multi (or Minit) owners out there?


Tim (never quite understood a lot of things, actually...) Servo
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