All about the Roland Jupiter-series

Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 23:13:32 -0600
To: "DJ Marmalade" <djmarmalade@...>,
	"inform3r" <inform3r@...>,
	"Dran Zef" <buzzardsun@...>,
	<analogue@...>
From: "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@...>
Subject: Re: [AH] CEM chips  ......not phat????
Message-ID: <006901c1d617$4e1e8760$71765140@...>

>
> Few would consider the memorymoog to be "thin", yet it has CEM 3340 VCO's,
> CEM 3340 LFO, CEM 3310 EG for BOTH VCA/VCF. It uses a 3080 for the VCA.
The
> only "discreet" component is the ladder filter(s).
>
>

Actually, the VCA is a CEM3360, as it is in the Jupiter 6, the Jupiter 8 and
the MKS80.

And certainly, CEM-based synths have a certain "sound" because they use true
grounded integrators
as opposed to state-variable filters with virtual ground integrators and
hence a different phase
response. Personally, state-variable filters have too much on an 'edge' for
my tastes. But that
doesn't mean they are "bad" just "different". Sort of like a clarinet and an
oboe.

But again we are arguing over the taste of beers.

Paul S.