Favorite designs

[Steve Jones]

Tony Clark saith-
> > Wow, this thread has been unbelievably good.  But I'd
> > like to make a humble request on behalf of us who are
> > less informed.  When a reference is made the CEM family
> > chips, it's usually pretty obvious.  But allusions to some
> > other designs can be kind of abstract.  I think it would
> > be extremely helpful to us novices, and perhaps also to
> > those of you with more experience, to reference specific
> > available schematics to the degree that they exemplify
> > or characterize particular design criteria.  This would
> > server to make the discussion more concrete for we the
> > lowly (slowly?).
>
>    Well if you want a good set of complete schematics to get an idea of
> what some of us are talking about (at least on the discrete side), check
> out the Elektor Formant schematics.  They are available at the following
> URL:

Yes, thankyou.  I'll do that.

Actually, I was just hoping people would reference
a particular circuit when describing their design
preferences.  In other words, I hoped they might map
their ideas onto schematics that we have access to, as
specific examples.

>    They aren't.  SSM is now owned by Analog Devices.  They discontinued
> all of the synth chips but have retained some VCA and microphone pre-amp
> circuits as well as some audio switching circuits.

So if the need arises, I'm pretty much out of luck, eh?


thanks for the pointers,
steve