Tube questions

[Doug Tymofichuk]

On Mon, 20 Dec 1999 18:08:32 EST DCMagnuson at aol.com wrote:

> 
> Would there be any way to (cost effectively) have a 
> switching matrix to route the modulation and signal paths?  
> It's been done in normal analog synths, why not a tube 
> synth?  
> 
> You'd have the benefit of being able to leave the signals 
> at full level, and avoid being killed making your 
> patches... 

I imagine that one could do this, but the signals would 
still have to be compatible wouldn't they? So you still 
have to either attenuate the high voltage tube signals or 
boost the solid state low voltage signals so that they can 
be mixed. I think it makes more sense to do the former, so 
that other solid state equipment can be patched into the 
tube synth. BTW, I do not believe that there is any great 
danger of fatal shock with these circuits, the output 
currents are quite small.

For myself, particularly as am building this synth one 
module at a time, a switching matrix is not practical. 
I just want a bunch of modules to patch to each other, that 
I can expand as my time permits.
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Doug Tymofichuk
dougt at cancerboard.ab.ca