[LAU] Theremin sound

[S. Massy]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 11:44:41AM +0200, Julien Claassen wrote:
> Hello Everyone!
>   It's perhaps a bit off topic. But how to best go about creating a
> Theremin sound? I mean, I've tried, but with very mixed results. I'm
> still not sure about the basic waveform to choose. Should it be sine
> or highly smoothed/filtered sawtooth? The vibrating aspect of the
> sound: Go for vibrato or tremolo or both? What do you say?
My admitedly very humble guess would be both. as others have said, a
two-dimentional controller would be best, but otherwise, I suppose you'd
want to introduce some kind of randomness in the modulation to try and
achieve a more natural sound. 

Cheers,
S.M.