The VCO Chip Cookbook

via electro-music.com:

"Ms Electronics is very proud to publish and distribute the new 118 page book by Thomas Henry entitled :

The VCO Chip Cookbook

It's impossible to do serious analog synthesis with chips like the 566, 8038 and XR-2206, right? Wrong! They've got loads of life left in them, but only if you let an outsider like Thomas Henry steer you in the right direction.

Forget the pessimistic data sheets from the manufacturers; in this amazing guide you'll learn the secrets only a handful of designers are aware of. Drawing extensively from his personal lab notebooks, the author sets the record straight, presenting accurate design details in a friendly yet complete form.

To round out the deal, there are over one-hundred figures, tables, helpful hints, schematics, design equations and simulation graphs, making this the single most important resource for electronic music designers wishing to exploit integrated VCO chips. The only mathematics required is a smattering of simple high school algebra. Best of all, every circuit and technique described has been thoroughly tested at the workbench; you can design neat circuits with confidence now.

Learn how to put the 566, 8038 and XR-2206 chips under linear or exponential control, get square, sub-octave, triangle, sine, ramp and pulse-width modulated outputs, add in hard sync, balanced modulation, temperature compensation, interface to CMOS, and even obtain a wild rampoid output with no commercial equivalent!

As icing on the cake you'll find resource information, a complete bibliography and three appendices showing you how to build your own VCO test equipment.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Thomas Henry is the author of over 130 articles and eight books on the subjects of mathematics, electronic music, microcomputers, astronomy, magic and caves. Most days of the year, you'll find him as an extremely busy mathematics instructor at South Central College in Minnesota. His leisure time activities include bird watching, exploring grasslands, amateur astronomy, magic, road trips to National Parks and flower gardening. The bat is his favorite mammal.

The attached PDF file contains the books table of contents so please give it a look.

The front and back are made of heavy "red" card stock and has a red spiral binding so that the book may open flat on your workbench.

The price is $22.00 plus $4.60 shipping in the US and Canada and $7.50 all other destinations.

Please PM me if more than one book is requested.

Payment is accepted via Paypal at the following account:

billnrob@optonline.net

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