I'm not familiar with matlab or octave :) but I do know the discrete and continuous underlying mathematics involved here, and from the https://octave.org/ https

I'm not familiar with matlab or octave :) but I do know the discrete and continuous underlying mathematics involved here, and from the https://octave.org/ https://octave.org/ homepage, "the Octave syntax is largely compatible with Matlab", the answer is yes. just to ELI5 for folks, the cool thing about analog computers (or digital approximations or simulations) is that since they are actually integrating (storing charge in a capacitor as the voltage varies) or actually differentiating (current through a capacitor varies with the voltage differential/rate of change) they can calculate what would be very complex to do on paper. Or more plainly, if the rate that the water flows out of the drain of the bathtub depends on the water pressure above which depends on the depth of the water in the tub, you can study all the math involved (what you did in calculus) or you can just put water in the tub and set your stopwatch (analog computer); and electrons through or in a capacitor is just like water in a tub this is basically all that's involved inside a music synthesizer. The complexity comes from stacking together a variety of different concepts once you understand that the concepts are stackable (like when they taught you about arithmetic being commutative, associative, distributive, reflexive, etc)