Oscilloscope recommendations for following along with Dave Mech's Digitone tutorials?

Elektron Gear Digitone/Digitone Keys
#1

I’m having a blast with both the Digitone and Dave Mech’s excellent tutorials.

Seeing the waveforms in action on his oscilloscope/analyser app really helped FM to click for me, so I wanted to experiment with that a bit myself.

I’ve never used a scope or frequency analyser before, so basically looking for some recommendations on some simple software for that (I think he uses an ipad app).

I’m on a Mac (m1), mostly use Ableton, so plugins for that or something standalone would work.

Happy to pay for something useful, but this is mostly for learning, so don’t want/need to spend a bundle on something professional level.

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#2

You can use the MOscilloscope VST from the Melda Productions free FX pack.
That pack has a few other great plugins as well.

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#3

I did exactly what @anzbert details, early in my synth journey, but dropped it after a day or two (I didn’t care for Ableton). Later, when I started into modular, I bought the Mordax DATA, which is a scope module. I use the scope on it from time to time, as much to understand CV (control voltage) as waveforms (FM and wavefolding), and the spectrum analyzer not at all. I think you are right to view it as a transitional issue and not spend too much (or anything at all).

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#4

VCV Rack has a oscilloscope module, free. I think you are correct: I feel that oscilloscopes are fun and very important for education, but once I got the idea of how CV and GATE works, I don’t really use it as much anymore.

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#5

…and there’re few more results from a search on the forum so you may find what you’re looking for

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