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[Byron G. Jacquot]

>   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.

That's another good book.  The new Csound book from MIT might also have some
good resources and concepts, though the implementation will be veiled.

Something that's maybe not as handy, but also comes from the academic
culture, and might have a lot of interesting ideas and technique would be a
stack of old issues of the Computer Music Journal.  Occasionally they'd get
something in there that I'd never really considered before...like the
article a couple years ago on chaotic synthesis.

It might be available at university libraries...just take a pile of change
to feed the xerox machines!

>    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.

And those programmable chips are getting more and more dense, too...and
there are a lot of interesting things you could do with just a couple of
them as well.

Does anyone on the list know about the programmable analog stuff I've seen
in the Mouser or Digikey books?  Anything useful for synthesis in those?

Byron Jacquot