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'490 Ladder - what Variant?

2005-10-31 by tontaub

Hi,
what variant of the many Moog ladder filters the MOTM-490 comes close?
More like the one of a Minimoog or the 904a? Or something else?

  Thanks, Michael.

--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@a...> wrote some
time ago:
>
> Depends on what you mean by "design".
> 
> There is electrical, mechanical and pc board design.
> 
> Then, you have to realize that many analog synth circuits are 
> "cut and paste" sections that in
> some cases are 35 yrears old (like the Moog ladder section in the
> MOTM-490).
> 
> Also: some of the basic designs I use are just the "core" circuit,
> and then I 'MOTM-ize' it. Some
> circuits are too much to fit on the pc board: the 'MOTM-ized'
> portion gets shipped.
> 
> I also get *ideas* for modules that even though I do the "design",
> that was the EASY part. The
> COOL part was thinking up the modules in the fisrt place.
> 
> Lastly: just because you are handed a "good schematic" doesn't mean
> you can build 100s of them
> with consistancy. I spend MANY hours in parts selection (call it
> "system engineering") trading
> off cost versus sound versus the fact if I can buy chips next year.
> Have you ever seen pc boards
> nicer than in MOTM? No, I didn't think so :)
> 
> Besides me, others that have contributed are (in no particular 
> order)
> 
> Bernie Hutchins (Electronotes, where many basic 'core' circuits
> existed, like the '120)
> Bob Moog ('490)
> Dave Rossum (chief designer at EMu, '440 and '300)
> JH (too many to count)
> Doug Kraul ('300)
> Robert Rich ('510, '520)
> Thomas Henry ('110, '800)
> Larry Hendry ('850)
> Adam Schabtach ('600)
> Old Crow ('520, '480)
> 
> and some others toiling in the 'shadows' of R&D :)
> 
> Paul S.
> chief cook and bottle washer
>

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