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One oscillator. Four shaping stages in series. Everything you hear comes out of that single chain folding back on itself. TZFM is a through-zero FM oscillator. Push the linear FM deep enough and the phase increment goes negative — the phase actually runs backwards, and the tone breaks into sidebands that a normal FM oscillator cannot reach. FOLDER squares up whatever crosses its threshold into an asymmetric pulse, then fills the inside of that pulse with reflections. Pulse width and phase are the two axes. PULSES is a chain of comparators slicing the waveform into one to five pulses per cycle. It divides without tracking pitch, so the result is a hard, metallic harmonic series rather than a transposition. XOR compares the pulse output against the feedback sum and judges it by amplitude, not polarity — the classic analogue exclusive-or, which turns two simple shapes into a dense,…