[sdiy] They aren't sawtooths, they're ramps

[Dave Manley]

That seems to conflict with this:

"Even the highly curved slope of the Minimoog's ramp waveform is 
duplicated in the Voyager."

Full text: http://www.midiwall.com/gear/voyager/review.html

-Dave


cheater cheater wrote:
> Linear.
> But magical.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 22:31, Dave Manley <dlmanley at sonic.net> wrote:
>> David G. Dixon wrote:
>>
>>> Waveforms derived from relaxation oscillators definitely do not fit the
>>> bill, and therefore should not be called "sawtooth", any more than some
>>> random "rounded" waveform should be called "sine".
>> I think there's some 'prior art' that may conflict with your definition.
>> Didn't the original Moog modular oscillators and first gen minimoogs use a
>> unijunction transistor in the oscillator core?  I think a buffered version
>> of that is the sawtooth.
>>
>> What does the saw look like on those old Moogs?
>>
>> -Dave