MY APOLOGY TO TOMG

[ld]

My apology to tomg my posting of satire about why the cem 3320's are ignored
was not meant as a jab at him!  Really!  I am old..nearly 50 years old I was
one of the original Electronotes members (1972)...I was making fun of the fact
that the young yout's of today on this list seem hell bent on reliving the
suffering we all went through back then..i.e.  reinventing the wheel...spending
3500 man hours tweaking home designed vco's, vcf's ecet to get them to work..of
course back then we had little more than the hated 741 op amp to work
with...when they appeared, the cem's and ssm's were/are blessings from heaven
to us!     Call me crazy, call me a flamer,
ecetera...but a lot of us old timers are like this..we just want to spend as
little time as possible building and we want to have some sort of full featured
standardized modules..we don't see the point of spending 20 years of tweaking
to have a 3 vco,
1 vcf, 2 eg 19" rack mount synth with half assed function modules we can
proudly
display in our home web sites...we would prefer to spend money buying cem's
ecetera rather than on pot, beer and attempting to get laid so that we end up
with fairly large modular synths ...  We don't see the glory in spending hours
poring over obscure component spec sheets..  God Bless Tomg  he is doing all
the suffering of tweaking for us!!

Jim Johnson wrote:

> Whoa.
>
> You may have some good points (especially about tomg and his PCB du jour),
> but you probably won't make many friends with that post.
>
> Jim Johnson
> Metaphoric Software
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> On 9/21/99 at 7:37 PM ld wrote:
>
> >There! the exact reason why no one is interested in using the 3320's!!
> THEY
> >WORK JUST FINE WITHOUT SUFFERING TO MAKE THEM WORK!!
> >Isn't that the point of this list?? An endless suffering/whining posting
> >competition on all 4,654,754 different obscure (mostly tempco) components
> >which if they are not one cent per pound or less no body will buy or
> supplied
> >free (stolen (a pocketfull at a time) from ones employer)..AND I HAVEN'T
> EVEN
> >MENTIONED
> >THE EVER POPULAR PCB FOLLIES YET!!  postings like--What?? you expect us to
> pay
> >TEN DOLLARS each for a pcb!!!...but of course that is board version
> >vcf-4.302 every 3 days another version of the vcf   will be posted on the
> web
> >site
> >followed by 18 seperate corrections to be made to each posted here!
> >WOO WOO!!! ARE WE FINALLY HAVING FUN NOW???
> >
> >Andrew Schrock wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, John E Blacet wrote:
> >> > Definitely use analog switches; like some of the Maxim devices which
> >> > handle +15/-15V signals unlike the old 4066.
> >>
> >> I feel a little stupid... as soon as this was pointed out I went and saw
> I
> >> had the polyphony article "the PAL filter" in my set of Thomas Henry
> >> article reprints! I think I skipped over it before because, at the time,
> I
> >> wasn't interested in All-Pass/phaser type designs. It's probably easily
> >> mod-able for HP/LP use.
> >>
> >> > Seems like I heard the 3320 was not that great a filter, but I could
> be
> >> > wrong. Must be some reason there are soooo many left....Maybe phasing
> is
> >> > it's forte?
> >>
> >> I've always liked the CEM3320. It's very versatile, even if it doesn't
> >> have as much "character" as an SSM-2040 or moog lowpass. The 3320
> filters
> >> I have are very quiet, and switchable modes would be the icing on the
> >> cake. They're also cheap, plentiful, and have a GOOD implementation of
> >> VC-resonance.
> >>
> >> I think Paul asked a while ago.. but I think a MOTM based around the
> >> CEM-3320 would be a good idea. (If this was covered on the MOTM list I
> >> apologise, sometimes I don't pay very good attention ;) Maybe Tom would
> >> like to field a 3320-based filter? The boards would be very small.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Andrew
> >>
> >> -| Andrew Schrock | aschrock at cs.brandeis.edu |-
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