MOTM

I've seen a similar convention used in academia.  Barton McLean's
Wavemaker 4 manual uses squares for audio sources, hexagons for audio
modifiers and circles for control voltage sources.  This manual will
eventually make it to my web site.

John Loffink
jloffink@... 

The Microtonal Synthesis Web Site
http://www.microtonal-synthesis.com/

The Wavemakers Modular and Integrated Synthesizer Web Site
http://www.wavemakers-synth.com/
> 
> Way back in the Dark Ages (the 70's) there WAS a standard for this. In
a
> flowchart-like format, signal sources were drawn as circles (usually
with
> the waveform drawn in the center), control voltage sources
(controllers)
> were rectangles, and modifiers were triangles drawn 'pennant-like.'
Signal
> flow was generally drawn from left to right; control voltages went
> vertically, with a tendency to put CV sources at the bottom affecting
the
> modifiers, etc. above them. Parameters were drawn under each element,
etc.
> 
> This is what a lot of us used for many years. You can see it in a lot
of
> old
> issues of Keyboard and Polyphony (later Electronic Musician)
magazines.
> 
> Then modulars winked out of view, and when they came back, it seems
> everyone
> has completely forgotten these conventions. This came up about three
years
> ago and I mentioned this; few knew what I was talking about. It was
> eventually dismissed as an "East-Coast thing."
> 
> Honest! This was really used! Widely, at the time, or so we thought!
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