Comdyna
2001-05-03 by =?iso-8859-1?q?=20?= <r_a_quirk@...>
Hello all,
I found the info he'd sent me earlier this year. The
item Comdyna will be selling for musical purposes is
the GP-10S. From his letter, "General purpose
features are not typically needed for on-line, signal
processing such as the music synthesiser applications.
For signal processing, we offer the GP-10S,
essentially a rack mountable GP-6 with some of the
general purpose features stripped away." The price
is $950 (the price from an older catalogue gives
$1295, so it seems he aiming at a different audience)
and was planned to be available from mid-april
onwards.
On the GP-10S brochure under applications some of what
it lists:
* Amplifier / Computing component manifold...
whenever analog variables are to be filtered,
attenuated, inverted, biased, scaled, added to
constants or variables, integrated, multiplied,
divided, squared, switched in or out, linearized, or
manipulated.
* Direct, On-line signal processing... computed
variables as voltage signals
* Neurocomputing... On-line, parallel,
self-adaptive processing, applications of the analog
computer's steepest ascent programs (must've been
reading some William Gibson)
Comes with:
* Rack-mountable chasis
* Regulated power supply
* Wired i/o connector
* Patch panel operations:
o 4 summer-integrator amplifiers
o 4 summer-high gain operational amplifiers
o 8 coefficient potentiometers
o 4 initial condition potentiometers
o 8 general purpose trunk lines
o 1 precision +/- 10V reference
At Dan Slater's website
<www.nearfield.com/~dan/Music/acomp/acomp.htm> ,
"applications include linear & non-linear signal
processing, coordinate transformations, polynomial
function generation (between EG & sequencer),
quadrature oscillators, state variable filters, chaos
generation." But he's got some very large analogue
computers as well as the Comdyna GP-6, so perhaps the
GP-10S can't do all this.
I'll email Dan tonight and ask him some more
questions, and let everyone know what his answer's
are.
I sent an email to Ray at Comdyna yesterday with a few
questions, & mentioned this webgroup and that a few
people were interested in the GP-10S.
I found the info he'd sent me earlier this year. The
item Comdyna will be selling for musical purposes is
the GP-10S. From his letter, "General purpose
features are not typically needed for on-line, signal
processing such as the music synthesiser applications.
For signal processing, we offer the GP-10S,
essentially a rack mountable GP-6 with some of the
general purpose features stripped away." The price
is $950 (the price from an older catalogue gives
$1295, so it seems he aiming at a different audience)
and was planned to be available from mid-april
onwards.
On the GP-10S brochure under applications some of what
it lists:
* Amplifier / Computing component manifold...
whenever analog variables are to be filtered,
attenuated, inverted, biased, scaled, added to
constants or variables, integrated, multiplied,
divided, squared, switched in or out, linearized, or
manipulated.
* Direct, On-line signal processing... computed
variables as voltage signals
* Neurocomputing... On-line, parallel,
self-adaptive processing, applications of the analog
computer's steepest ascent programs (must've been
reading some William Gibson)
Comes with:
* Rack-mountable chasis
* Regulated power supply
* Wired i/o connector
* Patch panel operations:
o 4 summer-integrator amplifiers
o 4 summer-high gain operational amplifiers
o 8 coefficient potentiometers
o 4 initial condition potentiometers
o 8 general purpose trunk lines
o 1 precision +/- 10V reference
At Dan Slater's website
<www.nearfield.com/~dan/Music/acomp/acomp.htm> ,
"applications include linear & non-linear signal
processing, coordinate transformations, polynomial
function generation (between EG & sequencer),
quadrature oscillators, state variable filters, chaos
generation." But he's got some very large analogue
computers as well as the Comdyna GP-6, so perhaps the
GP-10S can't do all this.
I'll email Dan tonight and ask him some more
questions, and let everyone know what his answer's
are.
I sent an email to Ray at Comdyna yesterday with a few
questions, & mentioned this webgroup and that a few
people were interested in the GP-10S.
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> > > - will I need a maths degree to operate it?instrument. Programming is a methodised means of
> >
> > The analog computer is an electronic
creating circuits. It can be learned by anyone with a
minimum electonics aptitude and/or experience. The
concepts behind the programming are a different story.
They are spelled out in Dan Slater's website. As I
understand the application, and I don't understand it
very well, the analog programs can be applied
effectively without being well versed in the math... I
don't know music synthesis. My business is analog
computers and analog computing.
> > >what it will / can do.
> > > - how precise is the tracking?
> > >I think basically they would like a rough idea of
> >website. I can add nothing to that. I'm sorry I can't
> >What it can do, at least, is described in Slater's
be of more help, but music applications are new to me.
> >Hopefully this has been of some help.
> >Ray Spiess
Regards,
Richard Quirk
Isle of Man
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