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Subject: Re: Tomita Snowflakes / Speaking of strings...

From: "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@...
Date: 1999-11-02

>Matter of fact, I just went up on the Moog Custom Engineering site, and he
>still offers it for sale - rack mount for $1345, describes it as a "36 band
>VC-Resonant Multi Filter."
>
>Tuning it would be a bitch!


The original design is a bitch, because of cap tolerances and the small
GB (gain-bandwidth) of the op amps used.

Today, we use OP275s, 2% caps, 1% resistors and tuning is not so awful.
And, the MCE version has about $60 of parts in it. Sheesh.

Paul S.