Synth and filters

[Thierry Rochebois]

>You're probably right, but if you've had to listen to producers,
>keyboard players, and even techs saying that "the Minimoog sounds like
>it does because of its filter"

Maybe that's true because a Sawtooth always sounds like a sawtooth, a square
sounds like a square, a triangle sounds like a triangle...
There is much more differences between filters than between waveform generators.

The differences between filters can be caused by many parameters such as:
- filter response ( A 24dB/oct Moog filter doesn't reach its 24dB/oct slope at
its cutoff frequency, it is not a Butterworth "optimal" filter... but it
seems to be musically optimal !?)
- distorsions added by nonlinear amplifiers (such as transistors !).

Robert Moog is the first man who dared to sell those strange machines we are
fond of.
His machines were not only laboratory machines (like the famous Mark II).

Thierry Rochebois