[sdiy] Mysterious transistor on one of the ASM-1 VCO versions

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Friday 02 May 2008 05:59, Pete Swarbrick wrote:
> Aaron et al,
>
> Isn't that (NPN!) transistor just the open collector o/p stage of the
> 311 drawn separately? It's not annotated with a part no. and since there
> are no pin numbers either this seems the most likely answer. I don't see
> any other explanation but can readily see why it is confusing !
> Incidentally, I have just built three 3rd generation Minimoog VCOs for(
> yet another) mini clone project requested by a friend. Although the
> parts count is higher they are really sweet to build, align and listen
> to! Tony Allgood's Oakley Sound 'One-of Three' VCO used the same core
> with some updated components and additional waveshaping/buffering; a
> great update of an old design.

What's this 3rd generation stuff?  I have *some* minimoog data,  but didn't 
know that there were 3 versions of those out there.

And yes, I do like that sound.  :-)

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