[sdiy] Book on ADC/DACs for synth applications

[David G. Dixon]

> Yup. That's exactly what I was looking for. I was aware of the Musical
> App of µprocessors book, but I didn't know if that was the one I
> should get, and I figured that if there were one or two particular
> book that were standouts, that would show through in the collective
> wisdom of the list. Right now, I'm just hoping to get audio into an
> ADC, get it to spew digital audio to a DAC, and get the audio back out
> as an analog signal. If I can actually make that happen (yes, I know
> that's useless by itself) then maybe we'll see what might follow from
> that.

I just read -- well, mostly read -- MAM, and it has extensive information on
ADCs, DACs -- all the TLAs!  I'm not sure it's the right book for people who
can't even spell DAC, but the discussion is certainly thorough.  I've never
seen another source quite like it; it's basically a book written of the
synth geek, by the synth geek, for the synth geek.

Of course, for general electronics know-how, it's hard to beat the Art of
Electronics by Horowitz and Hill.  It's got a fair bit of specific
information about digital-analog interfacing as well.