That's not a waveshaper ...

flood · Joined: Feb 24, 2010 Posts: 6 Location: Bombay, India

has anyone ever used this on a guitar signal as a stompbox? what were the results like?

frijitz · Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 12:06 pm Post subject:

I know this is really old thread, but I wanted to just update it a bit by linking to some new videos I recently put up. Two are drone sounds using the 5Pulser alone and one illustrates using the 5Pulser and Analog XOR together. SSL is releasing a module with a 5-Pulser and a dual Analog XOR. Final testing will be this week!

http://www.youtube.com/user/frijitz001

Ian

v-un-v · Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 12:12 pm Post subject:

Nowt wrong with resurrecting this thread Ian! I'm in awe of your circuit here and have been since 2007!!! Very Happy

v-un-v · Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 12:18 pm Post subject:

Nice drone too in that video.

I was listening to a cornet ensemble the other day thinking that what essentially is 4 square-wave-ish sounds, there was so much movement in the reed sound, which made the instrument 'come alive' so to speak. Many analogue synthesisers produced today lack this movement, and the sound gets very hard on the ears after a while. The 5Pulser really puts a lot of 'human-ness' back into the sound?

frijitz · Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 12:55 pm Post subject:

v-un-v · Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 4:02 pm Post subject:

I definitely think a single oscillator with animation is worth exploring. I've always preferred the sound of single oscillator instruments. The current glut of commercially available monosynths hitting the market right now all suffer from the same thing that they all sound like one another. Even the ones with interesting filters, essentially still sound the same. There's no movement in the oscillators. And having two oscillators gently beating against each other, or ones with PWM to thicken the sound, still sounds rather dry and lifeless. If an acoustic single monophonic device can sound so expressive, I don't see why an electronic one can't either?

An LFO too also suffers from this, with it's usual range of sine, tri, square etc.

I will of course watch with interest anything you may come up with! Smile

Tom

oculus · Joined: Oct 30, 2011 Posts: 35 Location: Iceland, Reykjavik

hi there Ian
first of all thanks for putting this circuit up here it sounds very interesting.
im ordering parts so i try this out and make it on a veroboard like all of my modules.
i was looking at the schematic and noticed the -5v in the upper left and down in the corner,
are you getting these -5 volts from a seperate power supply or did you install a regulator like 7905 on your 5pulser pcb´s ?

also are the d2-5 just any Zener 5.1V diodes ?

ps i just finished one of your AD/AR envelope as part of a
retriggerable LFO,VCA Envelope Module,
it´s very cool i really like it,
im going to be making more of your envelopes.

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frijitz · Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2013 10:57 am Post subject: Re: That's not a waveshaper ...