[sdiy] Extending the state of art

[Aaron Lanterman]

On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Grant Richter wrote:

>> I plan to explore other waveshapers at some point; right now, my prime 
>> goal was to understand and model that specific Buchla circuit, with the 
>> idea of making a software model of the Easel.
>
> Please extend the research to make something new and better. That is the only 
> justification for duplicating the prior art.

That, of course, is the long-term plan.

In the mean time though, you have to crawl before you can walk; I want to 
fully understand where things are to best understand where they could go.

> channels for music concrete work. It only took them 6 months to figure 
> out that was a mistake, because with subtractive synthesis, you are 
> constantly reducing signal power (by subtraction, duh). So they revised 
> their specifications for the 10 volt peak to peak levels which we are 
> more familiar with, so that after subtraction you still have a good 
> signal to noise ratio.

That's an excellent bit of history! I need to save that...

- Aaron

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