MOTM

JWBarlow@... writes:

>>OK, I have an old AlphaSyntauri (Mountain Music card and a keyboard that 
 hooks up to an old Apple II -- don't laugh, it was free) which allows one to 
 draw a waveform with a light pen (close to useless for reasons Paul and 
 others have mentioned), and a way to build waves by adding harmonics.<<

I was highly influenced by the Fairlight's ability to draw separate free from 
envelopes for each harmonic.  So about 15 years I wrote a program in 
Applesoft Basic, that did the same thing (used trackball instead of 
lightpen).  It produced some really weird evolving sounds, including unwanted 
high harmonic aliasing that worked it's way down into the audio realm to mess 
things up.  Couldn't get more than about 2 seconds of sound with that 
whopping 48K of RAM.  But now the Kawai K5000 can do the same thing if you 
want to hear the effect.

-Elhardt