The filter also suffered from some clipping, which I solved by replacing R1 with a potentiometer and trying out the best value, which was 3.45k\(\Omega\). When P1 was set to the lowest resistance, there where some oscillations in the output. This was solved by putting 1k\(\Omega\) in series with each potentiometer terminal. I'll see if I can get my function generator to sweep out a bode plot of the filter, to see some details on it's characteristics.
Updated active filter schematics |
To get some higher tones out of the VCO, replaced C1 with a smaller capacitor. I needed a few tries to find a good match. A small capacitor gave a higher frequency, but the wave forms got scewed, probably due to unmatched resistors in the input stage. A smaller capacitor also raised the lower end frequency too high. This shows that I probably need to find a better VCO design, to get a higher bandwidth.
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