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Just the other day (President's Day actually) I had the day off and went
to see where a friend of mine works.  One of his co-workers was "into
music" and I invited him to the AHMW get together by showing him the
info web page about it.  He was perusing thru a few of the pictures from
last year and I pointed at the Obie 4 voice and (jokingly) mentioned my
upcoming birthday.  He immediately smirked and said something like "ah,
I could set that up on the computer in five minutes"

I went into a mild rant about wires, electrons, imperfection, etc, but I
doubt that I had any effect.  Oh well...

Andrew

>>> grichter@asapnet.net 02/19/04 10:23 AM >>>
> ==> As one of the recent "computer bashers" on AH, I would 
say there is
> a huge difference between the PSIM computer use and the 
"softsynth -
> sequencing - sampling - recording" computer use that I have 
banned from
> my studio ;)

The difference in philosophy is the elimination of the physicality 
of the music process. Rex and I have a joke, no spit valves in the 
future of music. The down and dirty physicality of music, the 
smell, sight and taste aspects of it, are what are under attack. 
And what softsynths will try to eliminate.

If you turn music making into twiddling a 1/1000" thick layer of 
photons on a screen, it becomes a purely intellectual exercise. 
And sounds like it. Music as Chess.

Take advantage of this opportunity to buy cheap hardware. It is 
just like the early 80's where everybody dumped their Buchla's 
for TX-816s. Then MIDI was going to do everything, now it is 
Plugins that are going to do everything. Wrong again.

History doesn't just repeat itself, it stutters...



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