[sdiy] Buchla 295 10-band comb filter topology

[Neil Johnson]

Michael E Caloroso wrote:
> Don kept his cards close to his chest and was a member of the 1960s counterculture where he didn't trust the government, then didn't trust corporations (after his brief stint with CBS in late 1960s), then only trusted a handful of people.  I spent a couple of evenings with him talking shop, where the typical exchange was I would mention "wouldn't it be great" and his response was "I've done that".

Not uncommon IMHO....  But it's a shame that we need academics to
"discover" these techniques and write all this knowledge down,
otherwise we lose it in the mists of time, like tears in the rain.

> Don majored in Physics from UofCA Berkeley.  His talent in electronics came naturally as a child and he claimed he had never studied them in academia.  Before analog synths his career was in NASA and nuclear physics research in the university.  Physics background seems to be a common element among the synthesizer pioneers - Dave Rossum, Al Pearlman, Hugh Le Caine, Bob Moog (engineering physics).

Umm... Dave Rossum did biology, but yeah basic physics goes a long way
to understanding the fundamentals.
I try to convince my kids to learn the fundamentals, but all they want
to do is the new shiny stuff.  And have no clue how it really works...

Neil