[sdiy] Moog SL-8

[Terje Winther]

Just wanted to chime in on this:

> 2) I've never heard a piece of music effectively use square LFO  
> without sounding like a siren or something else very non-musical.

If you add a tiny portion of a relatively speaking high-frequency  
square LFO into your VCOs, you get that snearing VCOs that sport music  
seems to favour these days.

If you tune your square LFO to modulate your VCOs in a perfect  
interval, say a perfect fifth, and have a mid-range square LFO, you  
get a shimmering VCO sound that was used in several tunes in the 1980s.

If you tune your square LFO to modulate your VCOs in a perfect octave,  
and use very slow LFOs, and have your VCOs driven by a sequencer, than  
you will have VCOs shift octaves independent of the sequencer speed.  
You will probably need multiple VCO/LFO combos, so this is most useful  
for modular users, but it does infuse a healthy variation into your  
monophonic sequencer lines.






Terje Winther
terje.winther at wintherstormer.no
http://wintherstormer.no/





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