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by ObscureScience 580 days ago
Cool, I was thinking about the other way around, using an analog computer to build synthesizers.
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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.

This fella is using it as part of his music making https://www.instagram.com/stephano.music/