#08 Sample and Hold
The sample and hold (S+H) effect was at one time probably the most familiar of synthesised sounds – not because it had appeared in chart hits (it had), but rather because it was Hollywood’s de facto sound effect for all things electronic. Shots of computer terminals, satellites, and unmasked androids were invariably accompanied by a rapid-fire rhythm of random bleeps and bloops that told the viewer that what they were seeing was what the so-called space age looked like.
In truth, an S+H circuit is capable of far more than
