[sdiy] Why no Roland filter clones?

[Terje Winther]

> i think Rob from emulatorarchive might have some clones too.

Thanks!
Going through all of Rob´s pages, I found a SH-5 clone.
Excellent!

Terje


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>> If I am wrong in this, please direct me to the correct answer, but...
>> Why is there no modular filter clones of Roland VCFs? (I know that  
>> there are many TB-303 clones)
>> There are a lot of filter clones from famous manufacturers/synths,  
>> like Moog ladder filter, Korg MS-20, VCS3 filter, Yamaha VCF,  
>> Oberheim clones, Wasp filter etc., but I have (so far) not come  
>> across any clones of the Roland SH-series VCFs or other Roland  
>> early filters (except for the TB-303 clones).
>> These Roland filters were mostly made with CA3080s and/or  
>> transistors so they should be fairly easy to copy. The later analog  
>> Roland synths started using custom chips, like the IR3109 chips  
>> etc., but the earlier synths have ordinary VCFs that sounds great.
>> There might be a copyright side to it that I am not aware of, but  
>> none of the bigger brands (doepfer, MOTM, Oakley, synthesizers.com,  
>> Blacet etc. etc.) seem to have anything like the Roland filters,  
>> but lots of other (good and interesting) filters.
>> So why is this?
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>> Terje Winther
>> terje.winther at wintherstormer.no
>> http://www.wintherstormer.no/
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Terje Winther
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