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Electric Druid
Personal blog · electricdruid.nethardwareculture
Electric Druid is a personal blog at electricdruid.net about hardware and culture. Since 2017, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-06, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Electric Druid's articles on synthesizer and audio technology, including a Fourier analysis piece aimed at non-mathematicians and a post on analog synth chip clones.
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What Hacker News says?
This article on Electric Druid is the one that finally explained FT to me http://electricdruid.net/fourier-analysis-for-non-mathematic...
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on “Fourier transform – A math tool used in optics, MP3s, JPEGs and more (2013)”Submitted A look at the TR-909’s noise generator as a story · 2 points
HN discussionBoth Curtis and SSM chips used in synthesizers like the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 in the 1970s have being cloned and are in production. See https://electricdruid.net/analog-renaissance/
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on “Supply chain issues are killing synth companies”Submitted Classic CEM3340 Voltage Controlled Oscillator Designs (2016) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe DX7 was the first affordable, fully digital programmable keyboard to hit the market. Also, technology for digital synthesis was already there, the big game was to avoid patent infringement from other companies. For example, Casio invented the "Vowel–consonant synthesis" used in their 80s Casiotone keyboards mostly to prevent conflicts with an existing patent from Allen Organs[0]. And later, they came out with th…
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on “Yamaha DX7 Technical Analysis”