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hello all,

i remember this thread from the gas station (i think)
i know it's not really a point for discussion here cos paul would never in a
million years design a vco with built in instabilities - but maybe there's a
good single module patch for something subtle - like a 101 sample & hold
with level set to 1, maybe also running an 820 for random lag, into a vco
with fm2 set at something like 0.1 or maybe for ease of setting up the
'drift' could be put through a fixed attenuator (like the 822 set
to -oct..?)

anyway, since i've gotten my Logic Audio based DAW finally up and running,
i've had a basic tuned vco patch set up for about two weeks, i've been
working on around three tracks on and off over this period, with various
filter & modulation changes going on to suit the particular track (as you
do) - it won't come as any great suprise to most members that i've not had
to tweak the tuning once in these two weeks - now that's the kind of
stability i like...
...for quick patching when you're on a roll (or the computer could crash at
any minute) i've now found i treat one vco as 'master oscillator' and i
never re-tune it, the other two get tweaked quite often for harmonic
interest

by the way - i think we really really need a quantizer - my favourite patch
at the moment uses random s&h into bank 15 / wave 15 (octaves) of the
mini-wave to power a second vco on hard sync - if you get the subtlety right
it's very good bassline fodder - such a waste when i could be using it as a
wavetable voice instead...

anyway - just my thoughts on a freezing saturday morning...

cheers
paul b