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Hi John n All !


"Many years" does, in this case, encompass part of the '70s . Just
that Belgium is not very near (a bus ride away, or so) the US or
London, besides if one does not really know what one is looking for
... ;-) Boy, would i have liked to have something like what the
internet is now, back then .

The MIT books you mention i have got, they cover a lot of ground .
Then there is Current Directions in Computer Music Research, Mathews
and Pierce, MIT press ISBN 0-262-13241-9 hard cover . Not forgetting
the computer music tutorial by Roads (recent aquisition, have hardly
touched it yet) Then there are some Computer Music Journal (MIT)
issues i own, picked up at various locations . I did not mention
analogue EM MIT books, so can't help you there :) Seriously, the MIT
books have bearing on how one produces sound . Much of it is just
good theory, some also applicable to the analogue domain as well .

Also, i think there are still a lot of possibilities open in
combining both analogue and digital : wavetable oscillators,
nonlinear transfer functions, convolution osc, delay based anything,
etc ... Up to a few years ago these would have been outside the diy
realm, these days microcontrollers fast enough or containing a DSP
core are available with affordable development software and
computers to run these . A pity that (afaik) all computer or dsp
based systems deny (:)) the existence of something like voltage
control, as not a single one has DC coupled inputs nor the
possibility to add them .

This has brought us far from the original post and question .

Has it helped anyone ? :)

Take care .

Keep 'em oscillating :)


Hugo
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