[sdiy] May run class again this Spring

[Aaron Lanterman]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Josh Forgione wrote:

> Analog synthesizer building is now a very niche field.  College students 
> deserve educational opportunities to gain skills which are relevant in 
> the workplace.
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> That's not to devalue the analog education.  The lessons learned via analog

I've sort of viewed it as trojan horse to bring back some of the art of 
analog... synthesizers happen to be an interesting application area. The 
other main goal of the course is to actually get the students building a 
circuit and making it work, which we do very little of in our program (or 
EE programs around the country nowdays.)

> fundamentally a person looking for a career in the audio industry will have 
> an easier time finding work with a digital/dsp background.   And I'm guessing 
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> digital material.  Two courses if you can swing it.

The more I think about it the more I really want to do two courses - maybe 
one in the fall and one in the spring - with one focusing on DSP, maybe 
do some real-time programming...

- Aaron