[sdiy] May run class again this Spring

[Josh Forgione]

You know, I wasn't clear here when I said two courses.  I was actually 
supporting the idea proposed earlier in the thread to have two courses: one 
analog and the next digital.

My original point was not bashing analog in any way whatsoever.  I was 
merely reinforcing the original post's concern that the digital stuff was 
getting shortchanged at the end of the semester since it was crammed into 
one course.

As an aside, I'm an EE and I consider myself an _electronics_ designer - 
digital, analog, whatever.  I think the digital vs. analog debate is sort of 
irrelevant.

I did not intend for this to turn into a digital vs. analog debate, and I 
apologize if my lack of clarity lead us OT.

Josh


>From: Aaron Lanterman <lanterma at ece.gatech.edu>
>To: Josh Forgione <jbuckf50 at hotmail.com>
>CC: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
>Subject: RE: [sdiy] May run class again this Spring
>Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:11:51 -0400 (EDT)
>
>
>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.
>...
>>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
>...
>>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

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