March 30, 2007  Physical modeling synthesis  I freely admit that
I'm so far behind the curve on electronic music that the road
looks straight to me. Logic? Max/MSP? I don't know what you
people are talking about.   These days, of course, analog
synthesizers are retro cool, or whatever the current term for
"retro cool" is. (In honor of Phil, maybe it should be "cop
pension show.") I once looked into configuring my computer to
run emulators of all the old machines, but it involved a lot
more software than I was interested in buying, and again—no
patch cords. And I certainly don't have the money to pick up the
real thing (EBay has an ARP 2600 for auction at the moment
that's already way out of my price range, and the reserve hasn't
even been met).  So until those commissions start rolling in
faster than I can turn them down, I'll just have to resign
myself to building my dream studio on paper. Literally.  Astro
Boy and monkey with papercraft instruments Astro Boy there has
himself a fine "Moog Modular V" (no suc