<div dir="ltr">US patent 3,733,955 covers the duophonic keyboard for the MuSonic (later Moog Music) Sonic 5/6. The patent has a good description on how the circuit works. It is similar to the ARP circuit but it predated the ARP patent on their duophonic keyboard. I'm surprised the patent reviewers missed the prior art. The MuSonic system originated the single keyboard buss concept of carrying DC current modulated by a high frequency triangle generator for detecting both CV level and trigger from a single key contact.<div><br></div><div>MC</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Aug 2, 2025 at 3:54 PM Pete Hartman via Synth-diy <<a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org">synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I re-read the Ody manual a bit and it has to do with the current generating circuit being used to also generate that differential voltage. It's driving a constant current through the resistor chain of the keyboard (such that each resistor drops 1/12 V for each key). When you close two keys, you're effectively short circuiting the resistors between the two keys. Since the circuit is generating a constant current, this changes the voltage output proportionally to the part of the circuit being cut out, so that current is maintained with the smaller number of resistors.</div><div><br></div><div>Pete</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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