Electronotes and Synth-DIY CD

[Haible Juergen]

Hi Grant,

	> Ummm, no offense, but every Synth-DIY schematic I have
	> seen already IS a redrawn Electronotes design. 

No offense taken (;->).
We all owe a lot to EN, and the mail archives should be full of 
my expressions of delight when I first got in touch with that wealth
of information.
As somebody once said (I'm paraphrasing): "We're dwarfs, and the
only reason why we can look a little further is because we're sitting
on the shoulders of giants." It's good to remind ourselves of that from
time to to time.

I'm not so sure EN is the *only* "giant", though. I've found a lot to learn
from Korg circuits which I did not find in EN, for instance. I may be
wrong, I have not seen the *complete* EN set, but much of it. I'd love
to see these in-depth discussions about Korg's 1-transistor and 2-transistor
VCAs, 1-transistor and couple-of transistor VCFs, and so on.

	>I mean if you
	>replace the KE4839 FET with two 4066 sections and the
	>CA3046 with a MAT-02 and the op-amps with TL-082 etc.
	>It is still Terry Mikulics design for a sawtooth VCO.
	>
	>The circuit topology is the design. The actual devices
	>used to build it are just the implementation of the design.
	>
	>So the magazine served it's purpose. It not only fed
	>information to the first wave of designers like Don Buchla,
	>Bob Moog and Serge Tcherepnin (who were all subscribers)
	>but also to the second wave of designers represented here.

So Terry did really invent the topology of this saw VCO, and Moog,
Buchla and Serge got it from EN ?? This is not a rhetorical question,
and in no way a flame, it's really historic interest. (And I'd love to
give Terry the credit when I'm discussing this VCO that almost everybody
used.)

	>It is possible Bernie (or his wife) have health problems.
	>This is not uncommon for people of advancing age.
	>It is also not the kind of thing you explain to total strangers.
	>Until the story is known, could we please extend
	>Mr. Hutchins some Christian charity and not engage in
	>public attacks on his name.

This sounds like it's more than a guessing from your side.
And if so, it's very sad news. Please pass on my best wishes for
him and his wife when you happen to speak to him.

Regards,

JH.