A fascinating nugget of synth history // Sample & Hold in Video Games (Patreon)

Hello, 

hope you're well and entering a nice period of rest and good times for the end of the year. All busy here across various things, plans for the new year, a possible end of year round up, videos due in the new year, re doing a patchbay and section of the studio, testing a new prototype of the next DivKid module ... the list (as ever) goes on. All good stuff I'm happy to report. 

Here's a fun video that you may have already seen. It was part of the "13 Patches for Better Sample/Track and Hold" that I made for the limited edition Instruo tagh release. But having realised people have simply missed that video, or this section I wanted to cut it out and upload it standalone. As I think it's a fascinating part of synth history. 

Jason from Instruo takes us through how only 3 numerical values needed storing in primitive video game sound synthesis methods to create a whole array of sound FX. You need to know the tuning of the oscillator you listen to, the tuning of the oscillator you sample and the rate at which you sample it. Job done. 3 numerical values, masses of sounds in a very data efficient way for the primitive technology that used it. 

Share the video around and tell your friends they need more sample and hold in their lives! :) https://youtu.be/63KavxxCceE 

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