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RE: [motm] Long rave: Additive Synth VCO (was: MOTM 910 Nice Job Paul !!)

2000-12-06 by Fahl, Romeo

The original version, the Buchla 148, was a triangle vco that was fed into a
bunch of waveshapers that gave 10 different partials.  Apparently there was
a later version that included voltage control over each output.

Don't know much more than that.  

-----Original Message-----
From: davevosh@... [mailto:davevosh@...]
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 4:48 PM
To: motm@egroups.com
Subject: Re: [motm] Long rave: Additive Synth VCO (was: MOTM 910 Nice
Job Paul !!)


In a message dated 00-12-05 12:10:17 EST, you write:

<< This will take a lot more coffee and daydreaming. I keep thinking that
 through meditation or experimentation (which is harder) there might be a
 "eureka!!" solution to this, some way of making nifty changes to an
additive
 signal through broad methods. >>


i`ve guzzled my share of coffee and spent my share of time in trance-land
but 
no readily "do-able" solution has popped up. years back,  buchla offered a 
harmonic bank vco ( but with only 6 partials, if i remember correctly ).
i`ve 
never seen a picture of one though so i`m not sure what his solutions to the

problem of control were ( even on this much smaller scale). also, seawright 
designed one, but as a complete instrument, at either columbia-princeton or 
univ. of illinois. was used on a piece of e.m. called "lemon drops" (again, 
if i remember correctly) way, way back in the late 60`s.

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