Has anyone built a Penfold? - 8va?

[Mark Pulver]

>>Third, the 12dB/8va filter isn't really too impressive... I'm planning a
>>couple of replacement VCF's (including the CA3080-based one kicking
around
>>my website somewhere, as a 18dB/8va LPF... I think I can turn that into a
>>24dB/8va LPF by simply adding another stage to it. Nice simple little
>>circuit...
>
>I've seen this '8va' term a couple of times this morning - is this some
new
>abbreviation for octave? What's wrong with 'oct'. There's me thinking
>'what's all this 8volt-amps business!?'

8va is a musical notation for octave, eg "play 8va". It's quite an old
notation actually. I couldn't tell you what the "va" stands for, Latin or
Italian probably.

Mark

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