[LAD] Open Source to be or not to be?

[Gordon JC Pearce]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 09:52:42AM +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 08:09:22AM +0100, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 07:33:31AM +0200, hermann meyer wrote:
> >
> > > Regarding FaustLive, do you know that we (guitarix project) working
> > > on a analog circuit simulation toolkit, which will generate faust
> > > code from gSchem ( http://www.geda-project.org/ ) schematics?
> > > Imagine a electronic circuit designer could create a plug schematic
> > > and "hear" direct what a change from 1k resistor to 2k resistor will
> > > sounds like, if such a toolkit be integrated in FaustLive.
> > > 
> > > Faust rocks!<B0>!
> > 
> > Okay, so you get to hear what your simulation sounds like.  It won't
> > sound even remotely like real hardware.  Circuit simulation only
> > tells you how your circuit behaves in a simulator - it does not in
> > any way resemble real-life results.
> 
> Unless you run a full SPICE model, including all the imperfections
> of all components - non-linearities,  parasitic capacitance and
> inductance, memory and thermal effects, etc. etc. And then 
> 
> 1. it isn't easy anymore,
> 2. it very probably won't run in real time.
> 

... and even then, it still does not behave anything like a real-world circuit.

All circuit simulation is more-or-less worthlessly inaccurate.

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Gordonjcp MM0YEQ