Good point about sawtooth and strings. I've forgotten a lot. And also thanks for mentioning Karplus-Strong--one of the most amazing algorithms ever. With like 8

Good point about sawtooth and strings. I've forgotten a lot. And also thanks for mentioning Karplus-Strong--one of the most amazing algorithms ever. With like 8 assembler instructions you can build a very good facsimile of a plucked string instrument [0]. I implemented the heck out of that thing back in the 80s. It would work quite well today on an Arduino. (I'd expect many people have done so.) As to Silver Apples, I just could never get into that style of music. When I was studying this stuff in college our instructor was very enamored with the Subotnick/Stockhausen "bleeps and bloops" style. We had a giant E-mu modular in the lab and he wanted us to avoid using its keyboard. But whenever I was on my own I of course used the keyboard. Then one day a truck rolled up to the lab and dropped off a crate labeled "Fairlight" and I fell in love hard but that's another story. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karplus%E2%80%93Strong_string_synthesis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karplus%E2%80%93Strong_strin...