- Historical perspective
- Demonstration of a modular synthesizer
- Circuit theory review (emphasis on operational amplifiers)
- Operational transconductance amplifiers (OTAs)
- Voltage-controlled amplifiersLinear current sources
- Voltage-controlled oscillators
- Sawtooth cores (comparators with resettable integrators) Temperature-compensated exponential current sources
- Triangle cores (comparators and integrators with current switches) Basic waveshaping circuits
- Complex waveshaping circuits for generating time-varying spectra
- Voltage controlled filters (VCFs)
- Single-pole OTA-C VCFs (resistor replacement and “systems” viewpoints)
- Four-pole VCFs with feedback (pole migration and resonance peaks)
- Transistor-ladder and diode-ladder VCFs (dynamic resistance)
- Second-order filter properties
- State-variable VCFs
- Sallen-Key VCFs