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Re: Freq. Shifter...Serge future?

2001-04-13 by hizumi@rocketmail.com

--- In SergeModular@y..., "Bill Felton" <bfelton@m...> wrote:
> Well, you know, I'm fascinated by the recurring
> theme (and not just in Serge-land) of "you'd think
> someone would manage to make a system that
> decidedly outdoes Serge in a bunch of ways".
> What kinds of things do people think would fill
> the bill on this?

Sell individual modules in a wide range and of serge quality
specs.

Add the last couple i/o connections that Serge skips. (I don't like
the stock rise/both/fall switch on the USG

Make new modules of Serge quality with has high specs and
with as much CV.

Offer new kinds of wave and voltage processors.

Make it easy to produce all kinds of quadrature from LFOs
synced to a tempo

People are making "new" synths but they rarely go beyond 20
year old ideas. All through the 70s synths kept getting better and
more feature filled. There are only a handfull of exceptions.


>Or is it just a vague feeling
> that "since this stuff (Serge, or whatever is under
> comment at the time) is old, something newer must
> perforce be better/offer improvements"?


As we just talked about, Rex improved the specs when he took
over.

I'd say that proves my point at least in part! Why not someone
else doing it to something else. Or something new from the
ground up?

but that was a while back, one would think that someone would
have caught up. Maybe Grant or Paul S. or John Blacet might
someday, but not yet.

> I'd sure be happy, or at least vastly interested,
> to hear thoughts as to what would 'vasty improve'
> the land of modular, or even analog, synthesis,

really tight VC delay with feedback to do waveguide type things
that track

a resonant filter bank with indy outs

moving the individual poles on filters

better tools for working with multiple formants

counters

more binary operations

patch storage :-)

I'm sure all of us could think of some.

Its not that things have to get improved its more a puzzlement.
Now that analog synths have been back several years and there
is a little competition, how come so many companies just spend
time looking for more old designs to copy? The final

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