I'm back!

[Doug Tymofichuk]

Greetings, everyone,

I am finally back to work and a (sort of) regular routine 
again. When I left I was a happily married person with a 
reasonably normal life and family, but now I seem to have 
somehow evolved into a person separating from a mentally 
ill ex-wife who refuses treatment. Isn't life wonderful?

***WARNING***  Synth DIY addiction may lead to spousal 
mental illness!  ***WARNING***


Back on topic now....

Rene, I am extremely impressed with your tube VCA work, 
this is excellant. I'm also very happy to hear that Eric is 
working on a volt/octave tube VCO. When I originally 
submitted the "tube challenge" to this list, I had hoped to 
stimulate this type of response and I certainly have not 
been disappointed!

I also must say that it's good to see work by Tom and 
others towards all discrete transistor design; this is also 
something that I've wanted to do for a long time, and I 
think of it as a parallel to the "tube challenge" (bipolar 
challenge?).

For my own part, I am working on setting up a website with 
lots of DIY content, I will let the list know when it is up 
and running. I am also attempting to design an all-tube 
ADSR, which I will hopefully be spending some time on in 
the near future.

BTW, after much mental cogitation, I have tentatively 
decided to name my tube synth "Valve Job". Thanks to J. 
Barlow for the excellant idea! Of course this means that if 
I ever build a second tube synth, I can call it "New Valve 
Job".  ;-)

Keep up the electronic synthetic auditory phenomenom 
generation!
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Doug Tymofichuk
dougt at cancerboard.ab.ca