[sdiy] OT: making "IDM"

[Ian Fritz]

At 12:02 PM 6/20/05, dustin sedlacek wrote:
>this has become a great discussion ..
>
> >Indeed! Of course randomness is not difficult to produce. Even
> >something as complex as Xenakis' "GENDYN" system still often sounds to
> >me like a swarm of 50-foot mosquitos. OTOH Markov chains can be
> >tempered enough for more conventionally "musical" sounding results.
>
>Perhaps that is why chaotic control usually seems so interesting?   It is
>more deterministic that a Markov process, as it must involve at least a
>third order differential equation.  In other words, if you look at the
>related first return maps, each value depends on several previous values
>rather than just one.
>
>    Ian

Dustin --

Nils P. has corrected me a bit on that.  He points out that higher order 
Markov processes are generally used, and that these can preserve a lot of 
regularity.

So has anyone made an analog Markov sequence generator?

   Ian