Single oscillator love

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yeah its surprising how different they can sound even if they look the same.

love when a song hits you with a tight lead thats just a simple waveform.
especially when the character of the sound comes from carefully crafted amplitude volume and portamento timings/shapes.

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Does the cascadia count if I only use Osc B for FM? It really feels like itā€™s mostly a one Osc synth to me (using it for a pair of detuned saws seems like quite the waste), but boy what you can do with that one main oscillator.

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I realy love the single oscillator of the O-Coast.

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Digitakt with a looping single cycle waveform sounds wonderful as a mono synth :heart_eyes:

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The MC-202 ha@ a certain loveliness, as does the Lifeforms SV-1 in single osc mode; and the 0-Coast too. The Chimera BC8 is its own kind of special though, and I can drone with that for hours. And as for the SH-1, well thatā€™s even more special, even with a knackered oscillator and dodgy filter as mine has.

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that was my first love

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Throwing in my love for the Moog 32. Most beautiful electricity Iā€™ve ever heard. I miss it.

DPO Final is my favorite folded tone. And its sine is lovely.

I think Serge panels sound incredible but I have no first hand experience.

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well, technically 101/202 are not THAT single oscillator as 303 because we have two waveforms simultaneously and can mix them.

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Next vote for Cascadia :black_heart:

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The Blade wave output of oscillator 1 on the Pittsburgh SV-1. Per the manual: ā€œa modulatable double frequency saw waveā€ Disclaimer: Iā€™m not into Trance

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This is a good point.

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As far as I understand the gist of this thread, thatā€™s cheating :wink:

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Iā€™m surprised that nobody mentioned the TD-3-MO.

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I know itā€™s not a single OSC synth, but I often find I only need one OSC on my Moog Matriarchā€¦ it sounds so sweet just with OSC 1, I often donā€™t go beyond that.

Iā€™d love a compact version of just one of the Matriarch oscillators.

I like this threadā€¦ I feel like we would all enjoy an ā€˜Embracing Limitationsā€™ lounge. :heart:

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Interesting point, but itā€™s still a single oscillator though? Itā€™s just a different waveform, a mix of the two outputs. Doesnā€™t have to be square, saw or some other ā€œstandardā€ waveform to qualify imho. But maybe weā€™re entering a grey area :slight_smile:

I have an old monosynth where VCO-1 has two separate outputs going to the mixer. Output 1-A is a 5-octave square wave ā€œorgan styleā€ mixer, and output 1-B is a standard VCO output with selectable waveforms. You can get very rich waveforms out of this oscillator, but it still feels like a single oscillator as long as I donā€™t bring in VCO-2.

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i can think about two main differences with multi-osc architecture:
ā€”different waveforms are always perfectly in sync with each other
ā€”we can shift octaves for particular waveforms, but thatā€™s all, no detune by semitones

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