Mellotronists

Dickson's post is far too incomprehensible and rude to address as
such.  But this part is interesting...

   > From: Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@...>
   > Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:28:19 +0100
   >
   > I'm much in favour of old stuff if it sounds better, but your
   > personal form of Luddism is strange to my ears and even harder to
   > justify.

Actually no; my band's album was the first to feature a physical
modeling synthesizer, and I was the first to present a design for a
well-behaved thru-zero quadrature synth VCO.  And I have much more in
the works.  I am keenly interested in advancing the state of the art
of electronic musical instruments.

But it is true that I am not fond of the current crop of modern
digital synths.  Why?  Because after 25 to 40 years of digital music
development (depending on how you count it) the best they can do is to
make bad copies of great instruments that are no longer in production.
This is with all the research, all the funding, all the technological
advances trickled down from the computer and other high tech
industries, including Moore's law.  

That, my friend, is the real Luddism.  And a total lack of creativity
and imagination.  

Although it's not as bad as guitar players.  The three most popular
guitar models (the Stratocaster, the Les Paul and the Telecaster) were
introduced between from 1948 and 1953, and haven't changed
significantly since.  And then they plug that into a vacuum tube amp.

  -- Don

-- 
Don Tillman
Palo Alto, California
don@...
http://www.till.com