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scales....

2004-04-06 by phdinfunk

Suddenly it occurred to me that the PSIM would be good for all kinds 
of scales....  couldn't we, for all intents and purposes, assign any 
arbitrary scale here?  I mean, map any set of values against any 
other set....  polyphonically?!?  Holy shit!  Okay, I'm really 
excited about that possibility....  a quantizing Shift register in 
some exotic scale... the other PSIM with polyphonic quanting to that 
same scale.... with that whole idea of one input plays unisons while 
another plays scale-tone chords w/voltage controlled inversions.... 
I'm drooling...

And to think I could have all that in a multi program and just 
switch programs to some wild and crazy modulation source, polyphonic 
glide, or even a spare ADSR......  This module was a God-inspired 
stroke of genius, whether anyone realizes that or not.

Does anyone else have the feeling that this could actually DEFINE A 
NEW KIND OF MUSIC, or drastically change the way we make music?

In a way, it's like a modular within a modular...  It makes me feel 
like I have a Buchla 300 system or something  [:-)

No, I'm not on acid, I'm actually sitting here at work, operating a 
switchboard and entering things in a database and I had this 
brainstorm.....

These PSIMs are the most exciting thing in my entire modular 
synth....and, me being an unabashed and rabid synth freak (all my 
friends know, and they've tried an intervention....  it just didn't 
work), that's saying a whole damn lot!!

Cheers to Brice!

Jonathan

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