Digital DIY synths?

[Ben Stuyts]

Hello all,

I've been on this list for a few weeks now, and I'm enjoying a lot of your  
messages. However, the focus is purely on analog DIY synths. Are digital  
synths considered heretical here? You see, one of the main disadvantages I see  
with the pure analog way of doing things is that it is hard to reproduce the  
sound or performance afterwards. (I used to have a Teisco 110F in the early  
eighties, so I know.) You could go with digital pot's from e.g. Dallas and run  
the whole thing through midi I guess.

I'm asking because I just got this DSP demo board from Analog Devices, with  
an ADSP2181 DSP, stereo A/D and D/A, and rs232 port. It seems to me it would  
be fun writing software emulating an analog synth. (Like the current crop of  
analog modeling synths, the Yamaha An1x, Access Virus, Clavia and Waldorf  
stuff, etc.)

Anybody with experience with this?

With kind regards, and I hope I did not offend anyone... B-)
Ben