<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">And I have noticed vendors are moving away from some of the AS chips.<div class=""><div>Coolaudio is eating their lunch.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 27, 2021, at 11:46 AM, Benjamin Tremblay <<a href="mailto:btremblay@me.com" class="">btremblay@me.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">I have not tried the VCO, but have had great results with the 3320 VCF and the 3360 VCA. It’s pretty much Pro One for the masses.</span><div style="font-size: 14px;" class="">The 3320 is easy to damage if you over-power the resonance control. </div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">The 3360 can be tamed once you work within the correct control voltage range. </span><br style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">I’m an idiot. I don’t have a scope. But they sound great and I was able to get them stood up and move on to the rest of my project. </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">I’m also using a number of AS2164 chips. I have never used other brands, but these work great for computer-controlled mixers of analog signals.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">I made no effort to squeeze any gain out of them using negative voltage bias on the control pins. They work fine for my application.</span></div><div class=""><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class="">I still have some 3330 VCA chips. They were very frustrating to use. They seem to require a low-impedance voltage divider that gets very noisy without careful placement of capacitors. </div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Maybe if I go back and try to breadboard them after having learned the 3360 I could be more successful. </span><br style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 27, 2021, at 11:19 AM, cheater cheater <<a href="mailto:cheater00social@gmail.com" class="">cheater00social@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">I was wondering if anyone had any experiences with ALFA clones of<br class="">classic chips. Are they good? Is anything missing? Are they very crap?<br class="">No difference at all? Any specific ones to watch out for?<br class=""><br class="">Thanks<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Synth-diy mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Synth-diy@synth-diy.org" class="">Synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a><br class=""><a href="http://synth-diy.org/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy" class="">http://synth-diy.org/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy</a><br class="">Selling or trading? Use marketplace@synth-diy.org<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>