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Archives - 1986

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June 1986


Digital Music Synthesis
By Robert Moog

The many different shapes of the waveform of the present

MUSIC IS ONE of the most information-rich (wide-bandwidth) forms of human communication. A compact disk, for instance, uses nearly 1.5 megabits per second to faithfully transmit a stereo recording, as opposed to the several hundred bits per second needed to transmit a written message as fast as you can read it. Only video, the faithful transmission of which requires over 50 megabits per second, has a significantly higher information density.

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