13 Dollars for an electronic switch ?? (was: 4066's. Eat em up, Yum)

[The Dark force of dance]

Y-ellow Paul 'n' all.

At 01:06 PM 8/14/97 +1000, Paul Perry wrote:

>........MC3340? these are IMHO shite......
>damn near reduced me to tears until I realised that the control signal
>just pours right thru to the output.....they might be ok for their intended
>application,
>domestic gear with a remote dc control voltage from a pot, but believe me 
>hit the control pin with a frequency above one wrs (wrist thrn /second) and
>it is thump city.

Oh realy. Well I can't remember where I used 'em so I can't comment on that
aspect. But I do recall that they were pretty clean. I don't recall how they
behaved with control voltage breakthru. 

>National make a perfectly good digitally controled attenuator series with mute,
>of course single wire digital serial control, with a clever strategy so you can
>hang a number in series.....helps the layout i suppose. (up to 3 per pack)

Yep. I have a sample of each of these. I2C bus or a derivative of anyway.
Very nice little devices. Not that I've actually used one. And after all
this time I'm not likely to be able to obtain any more of 'em easily. Or
cheaply for that matter. Also note that the digital versions of the LM1036
are in the same family. Offering bass, treble volume and balance. As well as
4 output channels and 4, switched input channels. Couple that with their
digitally controlled equalizer chip and you'd have a pretty cool system. I
have samples of all these from a proposed project of about a year or more
ago. Not enough to do anything major with now but enough to mess with.

When I get this atmel programmer happening, this is presicely what I plan to
do. But I don't know that it's gonna help much in the short term. The amount
of work involved in programming and de-bugging this stuff is definately long
term.

What I was hoping to do was to rig up some simple logic control now. Then
worry about puting a micro in the box later to handle MIDI.

But I was a bit afraid to mention 'em because they're "Digital" :)

Be absolutely ICebox.
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