I just got my RME a couple weeks ago so bare with me.
Comparing it to me LP, just looking at the LFO waveforms on the panel, there is no sawtooth waveform for the RME? I’m just curious.. does the LFO in the LP have more selection of waveform then the RME? Or they just have different ones?
I just noticed it as I was trying to get that kind of “ZAP” sound with the OSC last night that I used to do with the sawtooth LFO on the LP… I know I don’t fully understand all the capabilities of the RME yet.. I did’nt really dive into the menu options much… but this just made me curious what kind of modulation options the voyager has in comparison to the LP.
I have an Old School and what you say is correct, just triangle and square wave available (plus the S+H options); meanwhile, Phatty has saw and reverse saw-tooth. I think the are digitally generated (ie. a microprocessor is driving waveshape, but I could be wrong). That’s the way that the Phatty generates noise on later releases of the code.
But you can ‘pipe’ in an LFO shape from an external device via CV if you have a vx-352, from a MultiPedal MP201, for instance.
If you look at some other Moog products, like the CP-251, it, too, only offers the two choices. I think that modules that offer the sawtooth varieties do it by tweaking the waveform via circuits but I’m not expert.
It was my understanding that the Voyager (not the Old School) and RME for that matter did have the other LFO shapes.
In any case, if you can stand to sacrifice OSC3, you can switch it into Lo-freq mode (3 Freq switch to LO), choose the waveshape that the OSC creates and then select your SOURCE on the Modbus as OSC 3.
Hope that helps… if not, don’t worry, an expert will be along shortly !!
Actually that’s a lot of really useful info! I knew that I could use the 3’rd OSC to use at lo freq, but for some reason never tried it yet haha. You just reminded me to give it a try.
Still waiting to get my hands on the VX and CP, but I’ll definately be playing around with those options once I get them. Thanks a lot for all the great info!