The Logic Off Topic list

In the old IBM PC's and Macs, you used to be able to write a little 
program that would make the computer generate tones. You could make the 
pitch change or whatever. I think this is the simple beginnings of the 
digital analog creation.

Isn't a square save essentiall 0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,? 
(scaled)
A saw wave would be something like 0, .1, .2, .3, .4, .5, .6, .7, .8, .9, 
1, 0, .1, .2, ....

That matheamtics can be represented by a graph if sent to a plotting 
device and interpretted properly. In the same, it can be represented by a 
sound by sending to a digital to analog converter and interpreting and 
processing it.

Real analog devices are pretty noisy actually. I remember when i 
multitracked the memorymoog (using tape multitracks since it was 
un-midied at first), that hum built up from all the tracks - kind of a 
wash - not really a hum - it had some higher frequencies in it - but I 
remember when I would listen to a mix down tape, you could tell where the 
song was about to start a few seconds early because you heard that noise 
wash start up before a single note was hit. 

Theoretically, AFAIK, the digital models should be essentially noise 
free. I'm certainly happy with my Nova in that regard.

Regarding, Kool's assertion that Peter Gabriel's time stretched pieces 
had never seen the light of day, I disagree. If you record any thing that 
occurs as sound - whether it comes from a human voice or analog 
oscillator - it has existed as a sound before. You can warp it in any way 
to sound radically different (not just time stretch, why not use some 
granular synthesis on it). The digital analog synths sound source was 
purely mathematical. The first time these ever occur as sound (or 
electrical signals which would represent sound if played through a 
stereo) is when they are output.