I’ve been curious about Chorus for a while, since I’ve been working on and off with chorus design myself. There were a few things I didn’t understand, like what the relationshp is between the modulation LFO’s waveshape and the frequency modulation of signals going through the chorus. You’d think that if you use a sinewave […]
Years ago, I discovered that it was possible to analyze a waveform and discover what harmonic components it was composed of, and that the magical technique to do this was called “Fourier Analysis”. I tried to find out all I could, but all the references I could find were aimed at university level mathematicians, and […]
There are a number of situations where it is useful to be able to crossfade between two different signals with a single control. Examples might be a wet/dry control on a delay effect, or a waveform knob on an oscillator that goes from ramp to square continuously. The simple and obvious way to do this […]
This project is a development of my earlier VCADSR envelope generator. Whilst that chip had both GATE and TRIGGER inputs, this chip replaces the TRIGGER input with a MODE CV that allows selection of normal ADSR, Gated looping, or full LFO-style Looping modes. Standard ADSR mode generates the shape you expect, and allows CV control […]
A single chip 1V/Oct voltage controlled digital oscillator, with 20 waveforms in a scannable wavetable. The VCDO uses a PIC 16F1847 microprocessor to create a versatile and simple voltage-controlled 8-bit digital wavetable oscillator. All oscillator parameters are controlled by 0-5V control voltages. The chip has a native exponential control response, making interfacing with 1V/Oct control […]
2018 Note: Obsolete! This chip has been superseded by the TAPLFO 3 The new chip adds several features, has additional waveforms and improved resolution, and also no longer requires a crystal. It’s an improvement in pretty much every way! Head over and check out the data sheet. This simple Tap Tempo LFO is based on the […]
A clone of a classic using my PIC code by J-P Desrochers Jean-Pierre Desrochers wanted to copy the response of the Moog 911 envelope generator using more modern technology. He asked me if it would be possible to tweak the response of my PIC envelope generator to do this, and I told him that it […]
A pure white audio noise generator using an 8 pin PIC 12F675 This pages describes a simple digital noise source that produces pure white noise over the whole audio band – out to more than 40Khz, in fact. With filtering, you can derive pink noise and other colours. The circuit diagram included below was developed […]
The linear feedback shift register is one of the most useful techniques for generating psuedo-random numbers. I’ve used this method for creating noise generators and as an element in the random modulation generators I spent a long time developing for my Protowave synth. If you’re not really clear how an LFSR works, have a look […]
A CEM 3312 / SSM 2056 clone using cheap PIC microprocessors This page describes a cheap clone of the CEM 3312 and SSM 2056 voltage-controlled envelope generator chips. Both of these chips include voltage control of A, D, S and R, but both include other inputs too. The CEM 3312 chip has a input which […]
