What type of wave-core VCO is the VCV free VCO trying to emulate?

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If you look at the VCV free VCO in the scope module, the waveshapes it generates for the Triangle, Saw, and Square waves are not what I’d typically see in analog triangle-core VCOs. Is it trying to emulate a sine-core VCO? I really like these waveforms and am interested in emulating them in analog circuitry on a breadboard.

Thanks

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Ended up finding this which is helpful: Logic Noise: Sawing Away With Analog Waveforms | Hackaday

Still not sure what y’all did for the square wave though. It is a very strange square wave.

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The open source code for VCV VCO as well as all the other VCV Free modules is available at https://github.com/VCVRack/Fundamental. Maybe it will answer some of your questions.

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The ringing is due to band limiting to avoid aliasing. The “droop” is because it is high pass filtered to be “more analog”. Is that what you are asking about?

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