[sdiy] Bass synth update... sorta.

[Andre Majorel]

On 2012-01-16 01:43 -0600, Ian Smith wrote:
> 
> A while back (can't remember if it was one or two years ago
> now... or longer) I polled y'all on what should go into an
> '80s style bass synthesizer. I finally got started today. Dug
> up a power supply, dual VCA, and State variable VCF that I had
> assembled long time ago and soldered up an oscillator on
> perfboard from the MFOS Soundlab schematics. 
> 
> I plan on adding:
> A second oscillator
> Noise sourse
> LFO
> ADSR
> AR
> a ladder filter of some sort... I have enough diodes and
> transistors to do either sort.
> 
> Anything I'm forgetting?

With two VCOs, something to have slow beating without the sound
fading out for a half a second. At minimum, a mix pot so you can
dial *partial* cancellation. Better, a way to slightly modulate
one VCO independently of the other. Perhaps a dedicated 1 Hz LFO
or band-pass-filtered noise source.

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André Majorel http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/