[sdiy] Buchla designs

[Aaron Lanterman]

The big one, I think, is to recognize all the weird ways one can draw  
a Sallen-Key.

- Aaron

On Jun 26, 2009, at 3:25 PM, Jerry Gray-Eskue wrote:

>
> Looking at various Buchla schematics, including some that look like  
> they
> were drawn on a napkin at a coffee shop, it occurs to me that these  
> designs
> must have used several small building blocks of circuitry with well  
> know (to
> Buchla) characteristics. With these memorized a new idea was easy to  
> layout
> in a schematic off the cuff and know it would most likely function as
> intended, similar to designs today using ICs and or logic schematics.
>
> It would be fascinating to see Buchla's schematics decomposed into  
> these
> building blocks with the operation and characteristics defined, it  
> seems
> that so much of the knowledge represented by his work was never  
> captured and
> documented, or at least not collected together as a cohesive set.

- Aaron