Recreating the THX Deep Note

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story imageSo you've just settled into your seat at the movie theater, and as the film starts to roll it begins with an advertisement for the THX Sound System, accompanied by a sound that's recognizable in a heartbeat, but a bit hard to describe in words [mp3]. That sound is called Deep Note. It was created in 1982 by Dr. James A. Moorer, who used the Audio Signal Processor (ASP), also known as SoundDroid to create it.

The ASP was a complex machine to program and included about 20,000 lines of C code to program. Only one ASP was ever produced, and LucasFilms LTD owns it. So what do you do if you're an enterprising hacker interested in blowing the covers off your speakers at home by replicating that sound? You build your own .

Read more at Hackday.com .

Confusing (Score: 5, Informative)

by tristram@pipedot.org on 2014-04-09 17:47 (#11C)

The ASP was a complex machine to program and included about 20,000 lines of C code to program.

For anyone else who was confused about what this sentence was trying to say, the original statement in the hackaday article makes a whole lot more sense:
The ASP was a complex machine to program. The Deep Note took about 20,000 lines of C code to program.
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