[sdiy] as3340 PW/tuning issue

Mattias Rickardsson mr at analogue.org
Fri Jan 3 15:56:45 CET 2020


On Fri, 3 Jan 2020 at 10:31, Richie Burnett <rburnett at richieburnett.co.uk>
wrote:

>
> ... The faster the rate of change of the LFO waveform the greater the
> pitch modulation. Try whacking LFO speed up and listen to the seasick pitch
> warble on most synths with pwm!
>
> However, pwm generated from a triangle waveform source results in both
> edges of the pulse waveform being modulated equally and in opposite
> directions. Therefore the centroid of the pulses doesn't move and there is
> no resulting pitch modulation. That's one of the advantages of using a
> triangle wave instead of sawtooth to generate PWM waveforms.


I'd say this chorus-y pitch warble is often a desired and/or useful feature
of the PWM setting for many people.
Is any commercial synth known for using the triangle wave to create the
pulse wave without warble?

/mr
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