Electrocution and other things

[McIntosh, Malcolm]

I, for one, am interested in building a VCF module.  The idea is to have
a tube VCF, a hyper triangle LFO (from my on-going MAP Voltage
Controlled Delay project - Thanks Paul!) and a triggerable ADSR all in
one module.  I'd love to have this thing!  Anyway, there is only one way
to get it and to see how it sounds - DIY.  So the more of you geniuses
who try it, or even talk about it, the closer it becomes to a reality
for me with my admittedly limited EE knowledge.

Malcolm

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Bill Layer [SMTP:b.layer at vikingelectronics.com]
> Sent:	Monday, June 29, 1998 11:10 AM
> To:	Andrew Schrock
> Cc:	synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl
> Subject:	Re: Electrocution and other things
> 
> 
> >Indeed, I'm intrigued by all the tube talk... it's not exactly
> something
> >that I've heard too much of in my experience in electronics. Even in
> intro
> >courses they sort of breeze over the subject and move on to
> transistors
> >and opamps... 
> >
> Yes, and isn't that unfortunate. Truth is though, tubes have fallen
> along
> the wayside in modern electronic design, but not in application. The
> strange part of this is that nothing has supplanted them in many
> instances.
> Take a look at Svetlana's website and you'll see industrial devices so
> esoteric that I can't even tell you their specific purpose, much less
> even
> suggest a solid-state replacement!
> 
> Tubes and transistors are both fully mature technologies, and
> amazingly
> enough, neither is mutually exclusive of the other. What this means,
> is
> that unless a totally new technology is created, we will be trading
> off
> between electron tubes and transistors for a very, very long time.
> 
> These tube synth circuits are in my opinion, more inherently musical
> than
> comparable SS circuits. If nothing else, build the tube VCO and use
> that a
> signal source for your elsewise SS sytem. Even simpler, build the VCA
> (1,
> yes one tube in this unit) and see how that sounds at the end of the
> chain. 
> 
> We need to organize a project for this... Eric's work is clearing the
> path,
> let's pave it! Anyone interested? 
> 
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