<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto">On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 at 10:35, Tom Wiltshire <<a href="mailto:tom@electricdruid.net">tom@electricdruid.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
> On 11 Jun 2018, at 09:32, Neil Johnson <<a href="mailto:neil.johnson71@gmail.com" target="_blank">neil.johnson71@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> For a practical implementation hunt out the Oberheim multimode filter circuit:<br>
> <a href="http://www.synfo.nl/servicemanuals/Oberheim/OBERHEIM_MATRIX-12_SERVICE_MANUAL.pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.synfo.nl/servicemanuals/Oberheim/OBERHEIM_MATRIX-12_SERVICE_MANUAL.pdf</a><br>
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> See page 4.<br>
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While the Oberheim is definitely the original source of this idea</blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I don’t know the dates of the various discoveries of this idea but Bernie Hutchins wrote an article on how to create various responses by mixing the stages of a four pole low pass in Electronotes 85 (1978). That predates the Oberheim implementations that I’m aware of but there could be more. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It might be worth adding that although the asymptotic slopes are always a multiple of 6dB/Oct, the slope near to the cutoff frequencies can be different, depending on the details of the integrator stages for instance,</div><div dir="auto">and this may have an impact on the synthesis of acoustic sounds. Certainly that was what the marketing copy of the Serge variable slope filter implied...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">There’s quite a bit of material on variable slope filters and some stuff about their use for acoustic sounds in Electronotes too, I think around issues 109-120 but I don’t have them to hand right now. </div></div></div>