The Moog Minimoog Sawtooth-Triangular Waveform

Viewers of my Minimoog video are constantly trying to decipher what I'm talking about when I describe what at that time was a mystery waveform. It wasn't long after I posted the Minimoog video that I looked up the name of the mystery waveform in the Minimoog manual. It is the "Sawtooth-Triangular," a sort of weirdly bent Triangle wave.
This video is a portion of a bonus video which is included in my soon to be released synthesizer DVD. Be watching for details on how to order!
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Music

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• moog
• minimoog
• vintage
• synthesizer
• synth
• analog
• keyboard
• marc
• doty
• automatic
• gainsay
• arp
• korg

[horowizard]

I have to say that this is not a great sounding specimen of the instrument. Keyboard is not scaled properly and not triggering all of the notes accurately. Hopefully a little work and TLC with bring it back up to spec. 

[AutomaticGainsay]

@horowizard The point of the video is to demonstrate the timbre of the waveform. The keyboard IS scaled properly, and all of the notes are triggered accurately. There is exactly one note with an issue in this video, and if that one note is enough to cause you displeasure, I apologize profusely.

[horowizard]

@AutomaticGainsay Are you sure? It really doesn't sound good. I think a better demonstration of timbre would be to compare ONE note, a long tone of the unfiltered Saw-Triangle wave with the same note of the Sawtooth wave and back again, then the Saw-Triangle wave with the Triangle wave and back, and so forth. Don't you?



[AutomaticGainsay]

@horowizard It sounds as it sounds, actually. While that comparison might be interesting, especially to you, it's simply not what I did. This video fragment was a part of a much longer video... and I put it here to demonstrate merely the timbre of the waveform.

[horowizard]

@AutomaticGainsay The Triangle and Bent Triangle waveforms on the Minimoog are soft in volume and brilliance. It sounds like your instrument is very noisy and hearing your keyboard clunking around in the mic is not helping matters much. Do this again but take the sound direct from the instrument output to the audio input of your recording device and mute the mic when you are not speaking.

[AutomaticGainsay]

@horowizard Again, I appreciate your opinion... but you should know that the sound IS recorded direct, but I have also maintained the audio input from the camera for an authentic experience of what it sounds like to actually play the device. User experience is important in regard to playing analog synthesizers... so all of my videos feature the synthesizer recorded direct, but also with the sounds of the actual device through the cam mic.

[fooloof]

@horowizard: Dude, it's Youtube.

[JurakaF]

This has probably been mentioned before but I like how if you divide the waveform in half, the left is sawtooth, and the right is triangle. I wonder what happens if you go triangle-saw? Or other combinations like sine-square, sine-saw, square-triangle? :D

[JurakaF]

@horowizard I hate butting in but dude, shut up about that. If you want it done a certain way so badly, go and do it yourself. His video, his hardware, his channel, his upload, his choice.

[horowizard]

@AutomaticGainsay Well, it's unimportant and distracting at best. I'm not saying this as a 39 + years veteran synth programmer but as an end viewer. Your production values as a video producer need polish.