20 Apr
2004
20 Apr
'04
2 p.m.
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, William Maddox wrote:
Oops! I misremembered this.
It's in Curtis Roads and John Strawn (eds.) _Foundations of Computer Music_,
MIT Press, 1987.
Ah, yes - page 232 - fig 13.5 there is the big TRW multiplier chip.
Note that the DMX1000 digital synth is driven (housekept?) by a DEC LSI-11
with an RX02 clone (looks like a DSD unit) for storage... and the
requisite VT100.
Damn: wouldn't it be Cool if any of those were left forgotten in some
closet somewhere?
Remembering that this is circa 1978/9 - some specs listed:
"AT a 19.3 kHtz sampling rate it will implement, for example, 24 simple
oscillators, or 16 oscillators with ramp envelope control, or 8 voices of
frequency modulation, or 20 first-order filter sections, or 10
second-order filter sections, or 30 white noise generators, or various
combinations of the above, such as 12 oscillators and 4 voices of
frequency modulation"
[from the 4th printing of 1988 - the first edition came out in '85.]
Cheers
John