Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

Ravi said: 

>I pretty much thought that there must be WAY more women using synths and
>making great music than that list. Too depressing to believe it would be
>so short.

There seem are quite a lot of lady DJ's hanging out on label-hosted fora. (I 
don't frequent these, but occasionally I get a heads-up to go look at one. I 
notice that the gals tend to come out of hiding after someone has pointed to my 
gear list. They have very sharp teeth!)

DJ'ing has gotten a lot of people into music production, so I think it's 
great to see women getting into emusic from that angle. It selects for people with 
showmanship and a consciousness of audience response.


>have you checked out the Adrenalinn?

Really good question to ask. I just put the II chip in my first version 
AdrenaLinn, and hooked up the nearest thing to check it out, which happened to be a 
Basstation keyboard. I almost forgot to go to bed!


Richard said:

>But one thing that bores me, having a few synths, is keeping track of my
>patches and banks, knowing where they are, keeping them backed etc.. >looking
>at the picture of all your beautiful machines... phew... almost a fulltime
>job just keeping track of it all

The thing people don't see is that so much of my stuff has full editing in 
the old Galaxy Editors program. One reason I have so many newer keyboards as 
opposed to rack module versions is that I want as much interface as I can get if 
I don't have the Galaxy editor for it. It's an uphill battle to use SoundDiver 
in a big rig. The beauty of the Opcode stuff is how the apps all integrate, 
and there's Max to build a special-project gizmo to filter MIDI in or out, and 
the virtual IAC bus to connect all the software. This is why I stay in the 
dark ages of beige Macintosh.

>have a good tootle

Yes, Richard, I'm Patchman-enhanced too! 

He's referring to a ROM chip of wonderful monophonic physical modelling 
sounds for the WX5-friendly Yamaha VL1-m. My goal is to mangle them post-tootle, 
and (topic! topic!) Evolver is a hot candidate for that.

Well, try as I might to be aimless, I've done something constructive this 
weekend. I have been getting used to having satellite radio in my house, and I'm 
entranced with the African music channel. So I spent hours adding 12-count 
meter to my step-sequencing app. Hooray!

Moral--don't get stuck in current emusic genres. Keep an ear out for 
everything that might inspire a new experiment. Snagging satellite broadcasts (101 
channels!) is a relatively cheap way to do this.
 

--Amanda
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