[sdiy] Taking a Step towards - - --((FUTURE-PREDICTIONS))-- - -

[Paul Maddox]

Scott,

>  I can't afford to go to a PCB mfr to pump out 8
> voice cards plus a motherboard.  And stripboarding a large digital project
is
> impractical, usually impossible.

so get yourself a Chameleon :-)

>  I learned most of my electronics working for
> Digital Equipment Corp.  Doing analog has never been anything easy for me,
and
> Thank God for this list, for without you amazingly smart and generous
people, I'd
> never have been able to do the projects that I now make music with.  Hence
I get
> very excited when I come up with something to contribute, regardless of
how
> un-advanced it may be to many of the list members.

I agree, this list is GREAT, but it would be nice to see a few more
Digital/DSP projects too :-(

> I have tried to incorporate digital methods in my designs, the simplest
being
> things like a suboctave generator, to my PLL frequency multiplier.
Initially, I
> thought that the square wave output would be un-useful, I was wrong.
Digital is
> good, analog is good, but analog is easier to build.

its courses for horses, depends on what you want and what you like.

Paul