[sdiy] good books on electronic music/ electronics history?

[Horton]

Not synth-based at all, but the book "Crystal Fire" about the guys who
invented the transistor is a GREAT read.





On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Dan Snazelle <subjectivity at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> so i got the book by roland's founder today (i believe in music)
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> it has made me want to get more books like this as something fun to read but also related
> to synth diy and electronics.
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> so i was wondering if any other engineers or inventors or historians have written books
> on Synths or drum machines or electronics related to music,etc but hopefully at a level that is NOT just written for a non technical audience.
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> have you read any books like this that you could recommend?
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> i read analog days this summer and that was good, and in the past i have read lots of books on
> music criticism,etc. But i dont know where to start looking for good synth diy or electronic music books that are more than just primers on WHAT IS ELECTRONIC MUSIC?
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> it sure would be nice if somebody like moog had written a book. maybe buchla will?
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> anyway...any advice on books highly appreciated!!
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> thanks!!
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>> From: tom at electricdruid.net
>> Subject: Re: [sdiy] Tap Tempo LFO/Clock
>> Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 15:09:17 +0100
>> To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
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>> On 12 May 2009, at 13:44, Michael Zacherl. wrote:
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>>> Hi Tom,
>>>
>>>> I've added a "tap tempo" feature. This measures the time between
>>>> two rising edges on one input pin and sets the LFO frequency based
>>>> on the result.
>>>
>>> so it delivers a proper waveform tracking the frequency of the
>>> input signal?
>>
>> Yes, exactly.
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>>>> It'll work with a momentary push button or a 0-5V pulse train, so
>>>> it works as a sync-able LFO too.
>>>
>>> "Syncable" I understand as a feature that resets the oscillator in
>>> the analogue world, which causes a "broken" wave cycle.
>>> But I suspect that's not what you're intending?
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>> No, the original code had a synth-style "hard sync" input like you're
>> talking about. The new code changes the frequency of the LFO to match
>> the incoming pulses.
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>>>> What applications do you see for a chip like this?
>>>> What features would you like to see on a chip like this?
>>>
>>> Multiples and fractions of the input frequency would be nice, IMHO.
>>> Going more crazy if the factor could be determined by a CV! :-)
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>> Ok, I'll bear that one in mind.
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>>>> What could I get rid of from the original VCLFO?
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>>> I'd keep the wave distort cv.
>>> The S&H feature isn't really important as long as your conceived
>>> RND wave has a loooong cycle.
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>> You mean that the random wave doesn't repeat? I used a 32-bit LFSR,
>> so it generates over 500 million random bytes. So, no it doesn't
>> repeat any time soon.
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>>> I just noticed that I'm about to a get bit crazy: How about sort of
>>> a loop? Which means you would need to store (?) the previous RND-
>>> fragment somewhere.
>>> No idea by now how to control that, but if you just heard a nice
>>> sequence from RND, push a trigger and it loops.
>>> Loop length could be determined by the "factor-CV" (see above).
>>> Something I wouldn't know how to do in pure analogue technology.
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>> This would be possible. The "random" element is generated by an LFSR,
>> so if you keep track of where you are in the sequence, you can repeat
>> the sequence from that point. One of the Nord synths uses this idea
>> for its "Synced noise" oscillator waveform.
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>>> But I'm afraid you'd be running out of I/O on the PIC ...
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>> That's what usually happens!
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>>> Just some thoughts - cheers, Michael. :-)
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>> Thanks Michael, exactly what I was looking for.
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>> Regards,
>> Tom
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