SP/LP Stability -- Considering purchase, any advice?

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Re: SP/LP Stability -- Considering purchase, any advice?

Post by Voltor07 » Sat Jan 14, 2012 11:41 pm

zerocrossing wrote:/edit/ So far the SP has been pretty solid. My only "issue" is that I get much closer to a real sawtooth if I'm somewhere between triangle and sawtooth. Maybe it needs some calibration... not sure, but it's really not a problem.
I've noticed this with my LP, as well...even after getting it back from Moog. I think it's just the nature of the Phatty's oscillators. :?
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Re: SP/LP Stability -- Considering purchase, any advice?

Post by thealien666 » Sun Jan 15, 2012 12:00 am

Voltor07 wrote:
zerocrossing wrote:/edit/ So far the SP has been pretty solid. My only "issue" is that I get much closer to a real sawtooth if I'm somewhere between triangle and sawtooth. Maybe it needs some calibration... not sure, but it's really not a problem.
I've noticed this with my LP, as well...even after getting it back from Moog. I think it's just the nature of the Phatty's oscillators. :?

This precisely why I got rid of my Voyager Old School. It was difficult to get exactly a sawtooth wave, with the continually variable waveform knob, as it wasn't exactly producing it when the knob was actually pointing right at that waveform around the knob. I had to move it a bit to the right (towards the square in my case) to get a proper sawtooth with all the harmonics (confirmed by looking at the audio output on an oscilloscope).

I suppose the SP and LP might share the same annoyances ?

I prefer being "limited" by the fixed waveforms rotary switch of my Minimoog D.
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Re: SP/LP Stability -- Considering purchase, any advice?

Post by Voltor07 » Sun Jan 15, 2012 12:16 am

thealien666 wrote:
Voltor07 wrote:
zerocrossing wrote:/edit/ So far the SP has been pretty solid. My only "issue" is that I get much closer to a real sawtooth if I'm somewhere between triangle and sawtooth. Maybe it needs some calibration... not sure, but it's really not a problem.
I've noticed this with my LP, as well...even after getting it back from Moog. I think it's just the nature of the Phatty's oscillators. :?

This precisely why I got rid of my Voyager Old School. It was difficult to get exactly a sawtooth wave, with the continually variable waveform knob, as it wasn't exactly producing it when the knob was actually pointing right at that waveform around the knob. I had to move it a bit to the right (towards the square in my case) to get a proper sawtooth with all the harmonics (confirmed by looking at the audio output on an oscilloscope).

I suppose the SP and LP might share the same annoyances ?

I prefer being "limited" by the fixed waveforms rotary switch of my Minimoog D.
On the contrary, I find it quite liberating to have so many waveforms at my fingertips. So the saw isn't really a saw...the saw is a couple LED's over. No big. I would think there would be more limitations only being able to choose saw or pulse or triangle waves as opposed to havng a blend of two waveforms in varying degrees.
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