SynthModules

Andrew, Grant, and everyone else,

It seems that general dogma has crept in again. Nothing is wrong with soft synths
or plugins. In fact they are wonderful, simply amazing actually. There is also nothing
wrong with a TX816 as a creative tool, but that doesn't mean that a Buchla 200 is
an obsolete piece of crap (actually many would contend that the TX816 was an 
obsolete piece of crap also at this point). All of these things have their place in
the creative process. I like to play around with soft synths but I like to play around
with my Wiard a lot more (when I feel like just sitting down and emoting). I do agree
with Grant and Rex with respect to the "Spit Valve" joke. The world of music production
is moving rapidly toward a hyper antiseptic environment. I view this kind of
exclusionary attitude a great loss for those who adopt it. I think that people are
really missing out. But the reverse is just as bad. If I run across a cool or unusual 
soft synth, digital synth, rom-pler, or whatever, I certainly won't turn my nose up 
at it just because it doesn't use patch cords. These attitudes are the same ones that 
torq me about religious debates (or bananas vs. minis debates, or macs vs. 
pc debates, or vi vs. emacs debates, etc.).

PS I'm looking forward to playing with my (on order) PSIM-1, I have my workspace
all setup for programming the little sucker (speaking of dogmatic views, I now have
another reason to not scrap my PC, other than my EPROM burning environment, damn!).


--- In SynthModules@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Scheidler" <xpandrew@p...> wrote:
> 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
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