SynthModules

There's really great stuff on AH, and I always (OK nearly always) 
learn something from the daily digest.  I'm about sound, if not 
music (what did John Cage say?), and I'm not picky about where it 
comes from.  My instrument of choice, believe it or not, is my old 
Martin D-28.  Now THERE'S some analog timbre!

I really did not want to stir up any controversy - it's why I only 
lurk at AH!  Really I think the group here instinctively knows that 
it's about making music, and we're all just discussing how to do 
that.

Without computers we would not have Kyma (yikes!) or Encore's new 
Freq Shifter or even PSIM!  On the other hand, there ARE some really 
crappy soft synths out there, so ther you go.

Now this idea of a librarian of BASIC PSIM code on a handheld - 
WOW!  And I don't want to start another flame war, but I think I 
will attempt a version on my iPAQ.  In .Net even :)  I would also 
build it in PalmOS but my Visor died a year ago.

That is, whenever my PSIM arrives ... :)

Mike

--- In SynthModules@yahoogroups.com, Mark Pulver <mark@m...> wrote:
> 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