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Subject: Re: [motm] Moog ladder plan

From: "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@...>
Date: 2001-08-23

We're on all this, hee hee hee.

Paul S.


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> It would have to be noticeably different, otherwise you are going to get
> all of these people complaining that it doesn't sound exactly like the
Moog
> filter. This is because the various Moog filters sound different, and no
> one "clone" can be made to sound exactly like all of them. Even Mini
Moogs
> vary amongst themselves. I'm guessing this due to the availability of
> different parts over the years or different tolerances in transistor
> matching when they were built. Nevermind the coloration of the VCA
> following the VCF when patching the Mini Moog as a "stand alone" filter.
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> >Filters are based on mathematical polynomials. You aren't going to get a
> >'new' polynomial. What you get
> >are different ways to implement them. 95% of the time, it's the parts
> >themselves that make a difference.
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> You obviously know much more about this than I do, but looking at filters
> as an end-user, it seems that existing filter designs may be improved
> significantly by adding new controls such as variable mode, variable
slope,
> variable width, switchable feedback paths, VC resonance, etc.
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