SynthModules

Mike Marsh (08:06 PM 2/18/2004) wrote:

 >The one geek element that might be a barrier to the non-geek crowd
 >is the connection to the computer.  Some might look at that and run
 >away screaming.  Too bad for them!

This is kinda' where I'm thinking now as well.

John (and you) brought out that there will no doubt be a nice library built 
of code for the PSIM, but getting people to deal with a computer to make 
use of it could be an issue.

 From years of hanging out on the Waldorf list, I can say for a fact that 
there are people that would bring their machines to a friend's house or to 
the dealer to get a new OS downloaded via sysex. This was coming from 
either the folks didn't have MIDI in their studio, couldn't get it to work, 
or didn't even have a computer around.

Now take those folks and try walking them through rigging a serial 
interface on a Mac (even windows can be "fun")...

And maybe I missed it, but what program is used to feed code to the PSIM? 
Is this a simple terminal interface running Xmodem or?

That can open up a whole new can of worms... Walking someone through a 
terminal emulator! :)

No matter... I'll take the stance of "I'll be REALLY happy to have one, and 
will help out other folks as much as I can". But I hope that Brice will 
sell enough to make all his (and Grant's!) efforts worthwhile.


 >I lurk on AH and the recent
 >tirades against computers seems pretty limiting to me.

AH remains in it's cesspool stage... It used to be such a cool forum.


Mark