[sdiy] Lectures from this year's synthesizer class now all online

[Aaron Lanterman]

I've finally got videos of all the lectures from the Spring 2008  
version of my class on "Electronics for Music Synthesis" posted to  
blip.tv. Previous versions of the class were called "Theory and Design  
of Music Synthesizers" - I retitled the class to more clearly  
indicated the increased analog focus and decreased digital focus of  
this version of the class (but there's some random bits of DSP-ish  
stuff in there, like discussions of aliasing).

There were 22 lectures this semester. Alas only 21 are posted, since I  
had technical issues with the camera one day.

The website is: http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~lanterma/ems

Come enjoy the videos - and also try your hand at the homeworks if  
you're looking for some fun. ;)

The last session, titled "Odds and Ends," has an analysis of the  
Buchla LPG tucked away in it. The Moog ladder appears somewhere in the  
"4-pole with feedback" lectures. (Note that I screw up the formula for  
the frequency response, since I analyze a single-sided ladder in  
lecture and then was sloppy when I put in the other side - Tim  
Stinchcombe's writeup set me straight. Actually I say a lot of  
incorrect and/or incoherent things in the lectures. I hope I'm right  
more often than wrong, and that they're at least entertaining.)

These videos were taken with a consumer camcorder that I just stuck on  
an overhead projector. The lectures from an earlier version of the  
class, at
users.ece.gatech.edu/~lanterma/ece4803, were professionally taped  
(since they were piped to our remote campus in Savannah), and are  
still available, but I knew less what I was doing then.

Anyway, a plea for help:

If you find these useful (either the old videos, or the new ones, or  
both) , and would like to make a "shareware" style donation - say $10  
or $25 or something - to support student projects (both for the formal  
class and independent study projects, which I sometimes advise  
students on), please see here:

http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~lanterma/ece4803/donations.html

You can write this off on your taxes as a donation, and it would also  
help justify my synth obsession to my superiors.

- Aaron