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<div dir="ltr">I wish Alfa made clones of the Yamaha proprietary chips from the CS80 voice board. Can anyone talk to them about that? I can't imagine it's a legal issue if cloning CEM chips is fine, no?<br>
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<div>Alfa is usually pretty responsive to direct inquiries. I've bought a whole bunch of their 2164s.
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<div>At least a year-ish ago, AS3364 was $2.90 @ 100, $1.85 > 1000<br>
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<span>That sounds great. My only issue is price -- The AS3364 seems to cost about $7 or more, depending on the source, and it does not seem to be possible to buy them directly from Alfa -- at least, I don't see any obvious way to do so from their website.</span></div>
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<span>My latest project is going to require about 250 2164 ICs. That's not a problem given what I'm paying for them. Yes, in all but the filter application, the 2164s are all linearized, but I'm paying about 23 cents for TL074s and about 1 cent for 561 caps,
so from a cost perspective, it just doesn't make much sense. Linearizing 2164 does add an inch or so to the PCB real estate, but I'm sending the same voltage to a large number (48) of 2164s, so even though they are linearized, only one logarithmic amplifier
is needed for all of those 2164s. I do need to buffer those CVs locally, so there is a TL074 sitting next to the 2164, but I would need to do that with the 3364 as well (the datasheet is silent on the input impedance of the control pins (big negative issue
for me), but I presume that it is measured in kilo-ohms, not tera-ohms). And, I'm getting four linearized amplifiers from each 2164 this way as well, rather than the customary two.</span></div>
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<span>I also (mostly now) use the 2164 as a four-quadrant (or variable-quadrant) multiplier, and it is not clear whether the 3364 is amenable to that application.</span></div>
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<span>If I could get the AS3364 for less than $2 each, then I'd probably get more serious about using them.</span></div>
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<b>Subject:</b><span> </span>Re: [sdiy] Best AVAILABLE OTA for building new designs?<br>
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I’ve been using the AS2164 only when I need the exponential response. If I need linear VCAs I now use the AS3364, which is more or less a clone of the SSM2024. That’s the same pinout more or less as the SSM2164 but has linear response. So, it’s very easy to
use, pretrimmed, quiet, CV referenced to ground, summing node signal ins, doesn’t require all of those 560p caps. That works out great when lots of VCAs are needed, Some people were really turned off by the 1% harmonic distortion, but I have yet to notice
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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">then imagine that the last time you did so in any quantity above one--- it was 2017. </div>
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with the ssm2164 at the time but never used it extensively.</div>
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