[sdiy] 1.2 Moog

mark verbos mverbos at earthlink.net
Tue Aug 23 08:58:07 CEST 2005


How many micromoogs is that?

Aaron Lanterman wrote:

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> On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, harrybissell wrote:
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>> yeah... doesn't 100mV per semitone make more sense than 83.33mV
>> per semitone.  And Bob 'sold out' and adopted a standard of 81.6667mV.
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> I guess it's a metric-British imperial sort of question.
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> The 100 mV per semitone does feel more metric, let's call that a buchla.
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> Hmmm, 1 moog = 1 volt/oct
>       1/12 moog = 1 volt/semitone
>       1 buchla = 100 mv/semitones = 1/10 volt/semitone
>       10 buchlas = 1 volt/semitone
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> so 1 moog = 120 buchlas = 0.12 kilobuchlas, or equivalently
>    1 buchla =
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>      (wait for it....)
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>        8.3 minimoogs!
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> - Aaron
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