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[patchell]

   Yes, I have that one.  It shows lots of good basic ideas.  Another good
book to get if you can find it is _Foundataions of Computer Music_ , edited by
Roads and Strawn.  This book is a collection of articles.  It has a whole
chapter on Digital Synthesis hardware.

    What is amazing is that a lot of the machines they show in the Roads and
Strawn book, built on large wire wrap pannels, can all fit into a single
programable chip now.

"Byron G. Jacquot" wrote:

> >    I have always wanted to build a digital.  I have been looking at the
> >Altera ACEX1K devices.  It looks like you could get a complete digital
> >synth in one of these things (yea- I know I could use something like the
> >56303 or Sharc, but I am a hardware dude).  I think it would be able to
> >put 256 24 bit oscilators, a 16x16 multilplier and 256 16 bit envelope
> >generators in a single device, probably the EP1K100000.  Speed?  This
> >part should be able to do all this at a 96KHz sample rate.  The primary
> >things I am thinking of is doing additive and/or Phase Modulation
> >synthesys.  I think I have even figured out a simple way of doing
> >different algorithms in the chip to accomplish different things...
> >    Anyway, this is a long way off.  Got to finish my current big
> >projects.
>
> You do have a copy of Hal Chamberlain's "Musical Applications of
> Microprocessors," right?  I think a lot of the techniques covered in there
> would be just as valid in logic as they are in software.
>
> I just got ahold of a copy, and have been re-reading all of the background
> information.  Lots of things we've all seen before, but the occasional
> little bits & pieces that I'd not been familiar with...
>
> Byron Jacquot

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