IMHO the Moog distortion is more a product of the differential<br> pair diatortion, and has very little to do with 'filter'<br> <br> They might be comparing the 'open loop' design with the state variable<br> design.<br> <br> Open loop (with no resonance) would also have no Global Feedback...<br> <br> H^) harry<br><br><b><i>Mike <mirwin@marketbridge.ca></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Aaron & List,<br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>-----------------<br>Is that what the datasheet means by "open loop design for enhanced sound<br>richness?" ;)<br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>-----------------<br><br>I find this rather curious as well.... the datasheet for the SSM2045 says<br>something about "rich open-loop filter sound".<br><br>If you look at the typical OTA-based!
filters,
there is (always?) a resistor<br>from the output buffer to the inverting input of the OTA, which sets the<br>passband gain to unity, helps establish the output quiescent voltage, as<br>well as providing some linearizing action through negative feedback to<br>reduce distortion at the OTA input pair. Each stage is independent of the<br>other stages. In contrast, the Moog filter and diode ladder filters do not<br>have this "closed-loop linearization per stage", perhaps this is part of the<br>reason for the different sound of the filters when they are over-driven?<br>Different distortion behavior as the filter is over-driven?<br>Mike<br><br><br><br></blockquote><br>