Practical Application... Hal Chamberlain book

[Russ L]

    I just got a copy of this book, which is out of print.
PAIA lists a contact that may have some copies.
I went through the entire book and low and behold
Hal covered an overview of the design of the Rhodes Chroma,
my favorite synth! He kinda rehashed some of the design
explained in the Chroma service manual, but it was a pleasant
surprise he focused on this synth for a few pages.
For his integrated filter example he cited the SSM2040.
This book is a great history lesson and covers sound generation
techniques quite thoroughly, but only up to the mid 80's.

Russ L
askeyman at earthlink.net


patchell wrote:

>     Today at work I was able to use a little "synth" stuff on the job.
> I needed a notch filter (tunalble) in a Servo Controller I designed
> (uses a DSP).  Rather than do the work, I whipped out my copy of Musical
> Applications of Microprocessors by Hal Chamberlain, turned to the
> chapter on digital filters, located the BASIC code for the state
> variable filter, translated in into 56002 assembly (about 14 lines), and
> there I had it, a notch filter.  Who says we are just waisting our time
> do this stuff.
>
>     -Jim
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