[sdiy] Becoming better at understanding difficult analog schematics

[Sarah Thompson]

Buchla schematics (at least the few I've seen) are fascinating. There is an
incredible economy of design -- where many/most designers' circuits can
easily be broken down into blocks that can be understood separately, with
Buchla circuits you'll see a weird resistor or capacitor (or something)
that doesn't make sense until you really dig into it, and it turns out that
the designer has merged the functionality of blocks together, or added
something analogous to a fixed tone control or something. Definitely from
someone who liked to get their hands dirty at the bench!

On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 8:34 AM Mike Bryant <mbryant at futurehorizons.com>
wrote:

> Maybe that's the real difference between East Coast and West Coast
> synthesis :-)
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Synth-diy <synth-diy-bounces at synth-diy.org> on behalf of Donald
> Tillman <don at till.com>
> *Sent:* 13 May 2024 08:20
> *To:* David G Dixon <dixon at mail.ubc.ca>
> *Cc:* ackolonges fds via Synth-diy <synth-diy at synth-diy.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [sdiy] Becoming better at understanding difficult analog
> schematics
>
> On May 12, 2024, at 10:43 PM, David G Dixon via Synth-diy <
> synth-diy at synth-diy.org> wrote:
> >
> > I hear you, Paulo!  I have a very hard time reading some schematics.
> One good example are Buchla schematics, which I find almost impossible to
> decipher.
>
> I got no problem with them, man.  :-)
>
>   -- Don
> --
> Donald Tillman, Palo Alto, California
> https://www.till.com
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