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Re: [tubesynthdiy] well well

2008-08-19 by sasami@hotkey.net.au

Hi Eric,

I've been to busy (or is that lazy) to bother. I did build a white noise
generator out of a thyratron though. One of these days I'll get around to
using some more of the huge number of tubes I went out of my way to collect!

Ken

>I didn't even know about this group until Andrew told me about it.
>
>Very nice. I take it you guys have looked thru all those old circuits
>in the files section. And no doubt, somebody built some of them, and
>found them to be lousy performers or otherwise rather useless for
>electronic-music applications. The analog computer circuits that claim
>to implement square, square root, exponential etc. functions tend to
>be too inaccurate or flaky to use in a CV synthesizer. I found that
>out 10-15 years ago--by actually building and testing a lot of that stuff.
>What little "prior art" in this area is very limited, and you keep
>seeing the same designs cited over and over.
>
>The Judd book is your best bet, and even it is rather limited.
>
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