Analogue Computer knowhow?

[Paul Perry]

At 12:34 PM 15/10/97 -0500, Grant Richter wrote:
>A music synthesizer is a prepatched analog computer. Depending on the
>bandwidth of the analog computer you could patch up all the electronic
>music modules.....
........etc etc.........

Great post!
This leads me to wonder whether perhaps when we make the standard modules
we are working at too high a level.... perhaps we should make much smaller
more elemental units such as integrators, comparators, adders, multipliers
and so on..... this would surely have the effect of making modular synth
music more interesting? this approach has not been viable in the past
because of 
the complexity of the elements (M. Padden's analog comp probably multiplies
by taking the differnce between the squares of the sum and differnce of x and y
for example, rather than the one chip we have today... which has better specs).

And imagine how many more wires to patch in! 

paul perry melbourne australia not florida 

BTW there are many books on analog computers....
all out of print..... books by G. Korn are a good start