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The Analog Thing: Analog Computing for the Future

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108 points cgeier | 3 comments | 19 Nov 24 17:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.417s | source
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szvsw ◴[19 Nov 24 18:02 UTC] No.42186373[source]▶
There’s no better introduction to signals and systems than a modular synthesizer IMO - the combination of tactility and audibility for multi-sensory learning is so great at building intuition - and more importantly, excitement! - for signal processing.

This looks like a cool project in the same spirit!

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1. ObscureScience ◴[19 Nov 24 18:53 UTC] No.42186859[source]▶
Cool, I was thinking about the other way around, using an analog computer to build synthesizers.
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2. youngtaff ◴[19 Nov 24 21:48 UTC] No.42188460[source]▶
This fella is using it as part of his music making https://www.instagram.com/stephano.music/
3. dreamcompiler ◴[20 Nov 24 13:00 UTC] No.42193555[source]▶
You can do that but it's kind of overkill. With analog computing you think in the time domain with differential equations, and accuracy is more important than speed.

With synthesizers you think mostly in the frequency domain and speed is more important than accuracy. Integrators from AC become lowpass filters, adders become mixers*, multipliers become ring modulators, etc.

* In audio, a "mixer" is an adder. In RF a mixer is a multiplier.