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by MadWombat 1731 days ago
Paid my $15. Great effort. A bit cryptic, but a nice deviation from a standard DAW experience. A bit weird how a lot of things you would expect to be separate modules are combined (like LFOs are created by right clicking on parameters and filters are buried somewhere under "effect chain" module. Naming is a tad weird as well. LFO is LFO, but VCO is a sig gen. I get that it is not really "voltage controlled" but it has been an industry standard naming for decades. I will definitely play more with it and hope it matures.
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Inside of similar-ish computer environments (CSound, SuperCollider, Chuck, PureData), these things have been known as "gens" (short for generator) for at least as long as [ EDIT: digital synthesis ] has existed (since it dates back to Max Miller and the origin of the MusicN language family).

[ I edited it because I realized that VCO's actually go back to about 1910 ]