Vega glares at Oppenheim’s “Signals & Systems” and shudders as he recalls many difficult quizzes
I’m taking a DSP course right now, and while it’s more into level (we’re still going over basics- playing around with how discrete convolution and Fourier transforms work) I do have prior experience that means I get these concepts really well while still finding the math difficult. While Mr. Smith’s pages are fantastic, I think largely my problem is so many textbooks (and most lectures) lack demonstartion along side the content. I want to hear things. I want to experiment with parameter changes. (and not in Matlab… god I hate MatLab’s syntax) I think VCV and PD have taught me a lot about signal processing just by messing around.
To some extent, I think a DSP course that had the student develop modules for VCV would actually be quite successful at meeting these goals.
EDIT: I like being the change I want to see and putting action behind my words, so I think as my DSP, Comm Systems, and Linear Control Systems classes pick up I’ll do what I can to get notes from them transcribed into my website. I already have the barest start of a signals & systems chapter at Sigandsys | Opinionated Guides and some DSP resources linked in Other Resources, Music | Opinionated Guides but both are a mess. @Squinky.Labs I’ll probably link in that page you published about efficient DSP, but if you want to contribute to any of these pages directly that’d be awesome!
Back to the topic though, listening to any demos of these drums I can find, and they quite definitely have a character all their own. I tried to convince myself I don’t need it last night by making a track using some nice acoustic drum samples instead of the Hora drums that end up in basically all the VCV stuff I normally do, but I think all I did was convince myself I need it even more. My Digitakt is going to be jealous 