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Beeps and Bleeps: Synthesizing Sounds with JMusic

When I was in high school, my family purchased an electronic music synthesizer kit. After making a mess with the soldering iron, and burning some skin in the process, we had a (mostly) working synthesizer. It was an analog synthesizer, and we could use patch cables to connect oscillators, filters, mixers, and other audio components together to create sounds. The original idea was to use it to create music, but at the time I mostly just enjoyed using it to make unusual sounds—and, of ...