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Jacob Vosmaer
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Jacob Vosmaer's personal blog at blog.jacobvosmaer.nl covers programming and hardware. Since 2024, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It has a working feed you can follow.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Jacob Vosmaer's posts on Casio VZ-1 synthesizer algorithms and how the instrument generates sound. One commenter points to a post while correcting the thread's description of the VZ-1's synthesis.
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A blog about technology and music
What Hacker News says?
Just to be correct: The VZ-1 takes a hybrid approach to its sound generation. Where the CZ line used Phase Distortion Synthesis and the Yamaha DX line used Phase Modulation (incorrectly advertised as FM), the VZ-1 uses Phase Distortion for ring modulation and waveform generation but true Frequency Modulation Synthesis to generate harmonics. https://www.vintagesynth.com/casio/vz-1 also see the former blogpost of the…
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on “Casio VZ-1 Algorithms”Submitted My favourite computer ergonomics hack as a story · 236 points
HN discussionSubmitted Casio VZ-1 Algorithms as a story · 67 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reflections on Using Acme (2020) as a story · 1 points
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