A quick and dirty recording of the Squascillator VCO - the first 30 seconds are a simple sequence with the pulsewidth being modulated by hand (could also use an LFO or other modulation source), whereas the remainder is a constant frequency with PW modulation alone.

No effects or postprocessing other than removing periods of silence and adding the fade in/fade out sections.

Squascillator VCO

Quick and dirty recording of the DWS diode waveshaper - no post processing other than adding the fade in/out.  This is the output from the DWS on its own - mixing the 'clean' and 'folded' signals can yield some very interesting results.

Constant frequency sine from an AVR VCO followed by random knob-twiddling on the DWS. There's a bit of a learning curve involved, but there are a lot of timbral sweet spots if you're prepared to put the effort in.

The 'default' version of the DWS has 8 diode stages for fiddling with - there may be an 'instant gratification' version available with only 4 stages at some point in the future.

DWS waveshaper demo

The diode ladder VCF in action - nothing fancy; Behringer Neutron providing the sounds, with the pitch controlled by the S&H to keep things interesting. Sawtooth wave to begin with, changing to pulse train towards the end.

Random knob-twiddling - self-oscillation is easy to find.

Diode ladder VCF

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DWS waveshaper demo

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