[sdiy] Chamberlin

[rsdio at audiobanshee.com]

Excellent book! Mine sat on the shelf so long that I forgot I had purchased it.

Then I discovered that it has the most comprehensible description of how the FFT works that I've ever read. If you've ever needed to debug DSP assembly code for the FFT, his description would probably be very helpful for overall understanding.

By the way, I earned my Bachelors Degree at North Carolina State University, where Hal Chamberlin wrote a thesis on a ROM-based digital synthesizer. I was blown away when I browsed through the library stacks and found this gem. I wonder whether NCSU ever published this, or if thesis papers are regularly published.

Also, across the street from NSCU was a company that Hal started which built an early digital recording device. This was in the days of giant floppy disks. The recorder filled a floppy so fast that there were two drives, and you had to remove and replace disks as fast as you could just to maintain uninterrupted recordings. This was all before the Compact Disc. I don't think I met Hal, though, but I did get a demo from someone at the company. I may even have a product brochure somewhere in my collection.

Hal went on to design a crazy keyboard controller with geared mechanical faders for every key. This was around the time when he got hired into the big synth industry.

Does anyone have links to more extensive history on Hal Chamberlin?

Brian


On Apr 14, 2015, at 3:30 PM, Tim Ressel wrote:
> Hi,
> Does anyone know where I can snag a copy of Musical Applications of Microprocessors? preferably 2nd Ed?