[SYNTH DIY] Hagiwo's Chord VCO Stripboard Layout
We have moved into the digital age! Wait, already? While I am going to continue prioritizing analog circuits for the sake of learning, digital is very enticing due to the low part count, lower price point, smaller footprint, and that fact that I am a software developer and can modify the code to suit my needs. I do have a few ideas for my own digital synth designs, but I plan on learning more first.
I built Hagiwo’s Chord VCO with very little difficulty, and I am sure you will too!
Notable Issues
I do not know if this is an issue on my end, but I need to be in a very low octave on my beatstep pro to actually get the chord vco to work. At higher octaves it seems to break down. This is not a big deal, just something to remember when using it
I now have two sound sources so tuning has become something that I need to worry about. The tracking on the Chord VCO is already quantized which is nice. My cellphone app tuner reads the chord vco as sharp, I am not sure if that is true though. I will update this when I plug it into an actual tuner.
Stripboard Layout
I took a bit of a different approach in my stripboard layout design. Lately I have been using perfboard to mount alpha style potentiometers. I also use it to mount the jacks but that is now shown here because I could not figure out how to get DIYLC to display that properly.
The stripboard layout also shows screw holes, my stripboard had extra space so I did not follow the bottom section of the stripboard layout as shown perfectly. Either way, I am confident this stripboard layout will work regardless, although, technically, the output signal path is not verified.
Okay, enough preamble:
