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Can anyone tell me about my new toy?
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 6:23 am
by Cereb Daithi
I know nothing about electronics.
However one of my buddies from california just shipped me a sort of early christmas gift...
SM20256 VCO IC
wants to get me on my way to building my first monosynth. what i wana know is do any of you guys have any experience in this field?
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 6:25 am
by sirwilliam
Sorry, I try not to come in contact w/ mono.
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 9:26 am
by Mr Kleen
my dad is an electronics whiz. unfortunately I didn't pick up much of that knowledge.
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 9:27 am
by chicken n waffles
nope. i sure can't. not at all. nuh-uh.
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 9:40 am
by complacent
Looks like it's meant to be used to generate both positive and negative frequencies (either fixed-beat-frequency (20kHz) or variable sine) with the output piped into a mixer. The VCO's are typically used to generate analog music effects.... Or so I heard.
Quality of the signal is mostly dependent upon the number of outputs and oscillators. Although I couldn't find anything specific on that exact model, is it by chance a quadruple output IC? How many oscillators are on the chip? The fewer the better!
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 2:23 pm
by Sabre
Hmm, no schematics to go with it?
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 2:24 pm
by Cereb Daithi
just that in an envelope haha. i really have no idea what i'm doing