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I just want to thank you maker. It's things like these that really make the internet a special place, with so much power that can be leveraged. It's great to see someone leveraging it to create rather than try to get people addicted on stuff here.

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Thanks for the kind words :D

This may be the best example of seemless pedagogy I've ever seen on this topic.

Now if you pushed it too the limit and went on to digital sampling and compression codecs and ended with the Fourier transform... That would be something legendary indeed.

Some of that was covered by a couple of videos Xiph put out [0]. I was really hoping they'd put out a bunch of them since I found them quite informative, but they seemed to stop. It's too bad since I, like you, would've liked to have seen some coverage on some of the more advanced topics.

[0] https://xiph.org/video/

I too very much appreciate this, as soon as I saw it I shared it with a couple students I mentor. Interestingly we're talking about synthesizers as an instrument and this is a great visual tool! Keep it up! I'd be happy to send a small donation for continued write-ups.

Well, we want them to get addicted to self-directed learning on technical topics ;-)

It's about time we get high on this.

Yeah, I was thinking as I was reading it how dry this would have been without the visual and aural accompaniment (in fact, I think I probably did try to read something similar when I was in college). I do wish there was a way to pause the animations, though, they got distracting as I was trying to read.

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