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Tiny...I'm not much of an electronics guru, but my limited understanding of a fast slew rate is measured by a piece of gear's ability to reproduce a square wave without much change in the shape of the envelope. If this is true it seems only natural that if you slow down the slew rate it's ability to produce transients gets limited, however that's more than just applying a low pass filter to the circuit, isn't it? In other words the sound's envelope (i.e. ADSR) changes not just the frequency range (i.e. VCF cutoff) when slew rate is delayed. (I'm a synthesis at heart, so pardon the synth ref.) A burst of noise through a lo pass filter sounds like a dull hit with a fast attck where the wave looks like a top hat. The same burst through a GT Vipre with the rise time slow sounds like a dampened but more full frequency hit with a slower attack, where the wave looks like a bike ramp. It's my understanding that this slower speed, plus other things of course, contributed to the vintage sounds of yesteryear as apposed the the fast and accurate equipment that is more standard today, which leads me back to my orginal post. Please correct me if I'm wrong here, thanks.
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