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Subject: Re: [motm] Hundreds of new waveforms from VCO

From: Scott Juskiw <scott@...>
Date: 2002-05-24

At 10:15 PM -0600 2002/05/22, Scott Juskiw wrote:
>In a similar vein, you can "exponentiate" oscillator waveforms by
>feeding an output into it's own exponential input. A good example is
>to feed the triangle output back into FM2. Watch the shape of the
>triangle output on a scope as you twist the FM2 knob. Works well with
>saws and sines as well. Now imagine how much fun you can have if the
>signal driving the FM2 input goes through a VCA: more voltage
>controlled waveforms.

Oops, I forgot that the oscillator pitch also changes as you turn the
FM knob to exponentiate the waveform. So it's not very useful for
dynamic waveform modulation when you want to maintain a pitch. Sorry
about that. Thanks to geblinkoort for pointing this out.

Although, if you use the FM1 input with AC coupling then you can sort
of maintain the pitch. It will wiggle about as the FM1 knob changes
but the cap will block the DC offset and the pitch will return to
almost normal. I'm not sure if this is useful or not.