of Microprocessors

SECTIONIII
DigitalSynthesis
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Sountl~otlificauoD
In the previous section, the application of microcomputers to the control of
external synthesis equipment was examined in detail. In this section, we will
discuss methods of having digital logic or the computer itself merely simulate
such equipment. As was mentioned briefly in Chapter 4, this is by far the
most powerful synthesis technique known because any computer can simulate
any quantity of conventional or special-purpose synthesis equipment. Although
the full benefit of such flexibility usually requires operation outside
of real time, the concepts are useful in designing real-time digital synthesis
systems as well.