[sdiy] 'equally tempered' vco

Ian Fritz ijfritz at comcast.net
Wed Feb 24 15:19:33 CET 2010


At 09:29 PM 2/23/2010, Dave Manley wrote:

>"The VCO in the ASM-1 is, inherently, an equally tempered sawtooth-based 
>design"
>
>Why would anyone say a VCO is equally tempered?  The temperament is a 
>function of the CV, not the VCO.  Curious thing to say.

I think it's just a way of saying that the VCO has an exponential current 
source built in.  Perhaps a way of making it understandable to musicians? :-)

Ian 




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