[sdiy] Most widely used IC

[The Old Crow]

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Vol wrote:

> What do you think would be the most widely used, and most important or
> useful IC in synthesizer technology.

  Not a straightforward question to answer.  For modern synthesizers, the
most important chip is the digital signal processor.  For analog
polyphonics, the most important chip is still probably the microprocessor.
(Although I might argue the most important chip is the program ROM,
without which nothing runs. ;)

  For pure analog:

  First-place: the op-amp, starting with the 741.  Second-place,
the analog switch: CD4016/66, CD4051, DG308A, etc.

Crow

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