title: Classic Synth Architectures

The aim here is to give a rough description of how classic synths are arranged.
Part of the idea is that, for example, if we take a 3 osc Minimoog patch, then
Spire, having four oscillators, can roughly approximate the patch.

This is a page where I'll accumulate notes as I go on.

## Minimoog
three oscillators, saw, square, pulse.
one noise.
one 24dB ladder filter.

## Prophet 5



## Nord Lead
Two oscillators.


## Virus
Three oscillators.
Saw. Continuous morph from sine to square,
with PWM, and 63 'spectral' waveforms.
Subtractive, phase distortion, FM.

The TI added wavetables and hypersaw.

Two filters, parallel or series.

## Korg MS20


## Korg Poly6


## Korg Monopoly
Early exmaple of paraphonic.
The four oscillators have
different settings, and in
para mode, each note picks
one of the oscillators that's
ununsed.