[sdiy] Other applications of CEM chips?

[Plutonique9]

On Fri, 9 Feb 2001 07:35:35 EST, choaglin at aol.com wrote:
>Since CEM chips are so hard to find NOS these days, I started
>wondering: what
>else used them besides synthesizers? I tend to have access to a LOT
>of scrap
>electronic gear, and I've run across useful chips before (BBD's used
>in a
>satellite comm link system). If any old gear besides synths used
>them, this
>could be a good way to get hold of them.
>
>Chris

I don't know about CEM chips, but for vintage Audio electronics old 
trashed home electronic organs are a goldmine. Plus, you can find 
them dirt cheap, esspecially if they are busted, then you don't have 
to feel so guilty about slaughterin' them.

As an added bonus, they normally have some pretty fresh analog beat 
boxes attached to them, you could rip em' out and build them into 
their own cases, i bet they would be a dream to modify, i doubt 
trigger inputs would be hard, is it just me or do anyone else dig the 
fresh sounds of those organ beat boxes?

Seeya
-- Plutonique9, Plutonique9 at symbiocom.com

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