[sdiy] "Reviving" the CEM3396

[Harry Bissell Jr]

HAH !!!

wide or skinny ???   :^P

Actually I'm playing with these chips and I think
there are more fun CEMs.  The filter is pretty much
fixed internally (not as flexible as the CEM3320)...
The waveshapers are nice but basically they are
DCOs.  The pulse width comparator has no hysteresis...
so if you try and run external waves through it... you
might get some static if you remain in the linear
region.

The mixing etc is pretty cool. But for a CEM slated
for resurrection, I'd chose some others

H^) harry

--- Paul Schreiber <synth1 at airmail.net> wrote:

> 
> > My picks for Curtis chips to resurrect would be
> (in order of potential
> > usefulness): 3396 (waveshaper/VCF/VCA), 3372
> (VCF/VCA) and 3374 (dual VCO).
> 
> 
> Well, I have over 450 in stock for shipment, and
> know where 3000 more are :)
> 
> Paul S.
> 
>