ECE4450 L1: Analog Circuits for Music Synthesis: Introduction (Georgia Tech course)

[@justinyang21114798]

Thank you so much for making this into an online course. As a senior in high school who is immensely obsessed with synths, this course is like my dream-come-true. Thank you so much!

[@burakg7246]

I cannot express enough how grateful I am for all the electronic courses you provide. Especially this series is such a gem!

[@analogpro7]

Your comments about textbooks and most classes are exactly right! As a EE design engineer, I too was embarrassed to realize the lack of conceptual understanding taught most anywhere. It was only by on job training that I figured that out myself. Your students are very fortunate to have a professor such as yourself!

[@Linguae_Music]

Thank you incredibly, for making this available.

[@Lantertronics]

Thank you for your kind words!

[@andyneubauer1595]

Thanks so much for putting this together! I will be watching these episodes several times, and following closely in the future. Having built most of the modules discussed, and moving on to etching things I cannot find a board for, this could not have come at a better time, the missing link. Your approach and delivery are spot on. This analog focus is where my interest lies, keep it coming!!

[@worriesinthedance]

Best possible start to 2021!

[@adamgottesman192]

Holy Lord! I've been looking for a playlist that covers this type of content thoroughly for ages! Currently a 2nd year Electronic Engineering student in the UK so can't wait to absorb of all of this fantastic content before starting to work on my final project: a fully analogue modular system :) Thank you so much in advance!

[@Lantertronics]

Welcome! (And spread the word!)

[@Lantertronics]

You might also enjoy my ECE3400: Analog Electronics lectures playlist.

[@adamgottesman192]

@@Lantertronics I definitely will!

[@AlejandroReyes-ys8dw]

Thank you so much for sharing this. I am building a hybrid synth for my senior design project and this is pure gold.

[@KeurslagerKurt]

Discovered your video's thanks to your post in the Synth DIY fb group. Thank you so much for making this available to the public, i'm learning so much and looking forward to future videos 😊

[@psynautic]

im so pumped for new versions of these lectures!

[@robertsyrett1992]

I am really looking forward to this one, the production and editting look great!

[@blacklion79]

Wow, I'm seeking for such course for years. Thank you!

[@DJ_Merkury66]

Thanks for posting these. I am super interested. And thanks for dropping a note in the synth mailing list!

[@FreejackVesa]

Thanks for creating this!

[@alfonsosantimone]

that's very exciting news! thanks Aaron!

[@Gruftgrabbler]

Thank you from Darmstadt. Looking forward to learn everything in this course you have to tell us :)

[@sucim]

Darmstadt all the wayyy!!

[@zetaconvex1987]

Came here from a link on Hackers News. I look forward to viewing your whole series. It's an interesting subject.

[@Lantertronics]

Welcome! :)

[@jstro-hobbytech]

You've got me addicted to building synth circuits so I ordered a korg drum sequencer to go with my line 6 helix modeler along with my schecter banshee today lol. It's hard to find decent opamps. I also have some top end Ada Lovelace with my woefully underpowered 12900k

[@Cracked_and_Crunchy]

Excellent. I have too many electronics books full of useless "circuits". It's reifying to hear someone say that they're pointless, as they certainly don't aid the intuition. It's almost as if a good chunk of the electronics curricula in the world is a massive waste of time that does little to develop ppls understanding.

[@krzysztofgawlas660]

Great to join the course!

[@krishna34674]

looking forward to this !

[@axonandon]

If you go do Linear Circuits 1 on Coursera as a prereq as suggested in the video, be advised that there are multiple errors in the quizzes. Consult the Coursera discussion forum for details, as there's some pretty informative comments there.

[@JapanoiseBreakfast]

That, and the class has basically been abandoned by the staff. The only activity on there is from other students.

[@Lantertronics]

@@JapanoiseBreakfast It's tricky in that the faculty I know who have created Coursera courses (and courses on similar platforms) have often gotten funding for the initial creation of the course, but it's a lot harder to get funding to update an existing course.

[@martinjankohler6391]

Amazing! Thanks so much for sharing!

[@tohtorizorro]

Super awesome! I don't know much about uploading videos into youtube, but in case there is an option to check what language is spoken in the video or otherwise affect the captioning, it would be nice if you'd do so. There is nothing wrong with your speech, on the contrary it is very clear and very easily understandable but especially as a non-native English speaker, I've accustomed to having the captions always on when possible and they tend to be quite useful along the way (yes, even the auto-generated ones, that stuff has been working quite well for some time now!) For one, especially with industry specific terminology, the captioning makes translating unfamiliar terms very easy. As you said, one can only have dreamed for finding such material online before this, so thank you sooo much in advance and greetings from Finland!

[@Lantertronics]

Oh that is very strange -- the captioning mechanism seems to be trying to interpret my speech as some other language and then translate *that* into English, so it gives some very funny results. I went in and specified the language as English, but at least right now, it is still giving very strange subtitles. Sorry I don't know how to fix that!

[@Lantertronics]

Actually, I just looked at the transcript -- and it says it's trying to interpret it as Indonesian. I have *no idea* why. ;)

[@adambendorf828]

Appreciate your comments on the difficulty of applying standard circuit analysis methods to analyze synth circuits. As a newbie, this has been a major problem for me. I had wondered, "so am I supposed to write down a bunch of node voltage equations?" Seemed like that wouldn't help me achieve real understanding.

[@duckythescientist]

Yes! I'm so excited for this :D

[@howlround]

Awesome. exactly what I was looking for

[@NathanReevesnate808]

I started out studying power supply schemes for troubleshooting my old synths

[@segfault-berlin]

I sure wish my university offered this course.

[@nucleararmeddogg568]

So happy you've gifted so much of your knowledge like this. You are a fuckin bad ass!!!

[@Lantertronics]

Thank you so much! :)

[@imlxh7126]

You sound exactly like NileRed. I *immediately* trust you.

[@dageekoftheweek]

Would you recommend using Kahn academy to get the calculus needed for the other coursera course you mentioned, I need a prerequisite.... for the prerequisite. 😅

[@Lantertronics]

Highly recommend Kahn academy! And you don't really need much calculus, really. A lot of circuits can be done with just algebra.

[@Lantertronics]

Differentiation and integration of exponents, sines, and cosines is really all you need for most basic circuit stuff. There's a whole lot more complicated stuff like integration by parts covered in a usual calculus course that doesn't come up very often.

[@jstro-hobbytech]

Haha. You made me forget how much I love synth. I've read so many papers on opamps and soldered circuits with the underpowered bulk opamp kits from ali. I'll also give you a video of the inside of my line 6 if you like. I also have a 91 boss me-10 that needs a recapping if you want it. It's worth a fortune but got a bum rap the year it was made with a bad batch of caps....127 in each lol

[@aaronschultz5206]

Would you recommend any other books besides the three you listed at 5:20? I'm not a student at Georgia Tech, but I have access to my University library and would love to learn more.

[@Lantertronics]

Unfortunately, I don't know of any...

[@Lantertronics]

Oh wait, sorry, actually I got mixed up. Other than the Douglas Self book, I don't actually recommend the other two for synth material. I *do* highly recommend "Musical Applications of Microprocessors" by Hal Chamberlin; it has an excellent chapter on analog circuits.

[@barryklein4230]

Fun stuff!

[@qbqbqdbq]

ive got a kilo of OTA's, let's do this

[@Reverend11dMEOW]

absorb absorb absorb

[@telemindx]

Some course on Digital Synths..!