[sdiy] Stupid Sheppard Generator Question

[Gene Stopp]

I built one of these a few years ago, and the design I used was John
Simonton's. Works great. I did all the logic on one chip! It was an Altera
something-or-other (at a prior job where I used Altera tools). This quote
from John's article (1983) caught my eye just now:


The day will soon be here when we wouldn't even discuss a logic
machine approach to this problem.   We would just truck ourselves
down to our local electronics store and pick up a blister packed
Single Chip Data Processor to be programed on our trusty Home
Data System.



Hey John, if you're out there reading this, nice call!


- Gene


-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Hudson [mailto:thudson at tomy.net]
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 2:54 PM
To: Peter Grenader
Cc: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Stupid Sheppard Generator Question


On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 10:04, Peter Grenader wrote:
> Could one of you guys explain to me what exactly a Sheppard Generator
does?
> I know, I know...I'm the big know it all ....but this one I must of
missed.
> They SOUND great (samples on Grant's Page)....but I am not sure what I am
> hearing.
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Peter
> 
Good description here:

http://machines.hyperreal.org/manufacturers/Paia/images/shepard.txt