SynthModules

>>> mmarsh@websense.com 02/18/04 11:06 PM >>>
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!  I lurk on AH and the recent 
tirades against computers seems pretty limiting to me.

==> 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 ;)

And somebody mentioned program storage modules...  I think the Palm
Pilot would be a great way to store programs.  The standard cradle has a
seriel port, and you can buy the low end Pilots for next to nothing. 
Maybe a Frac-Rac module could be made that is a Pilot cradle on the
faceplace :)

Andrew

> ==> 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...

Andrew Scheidler (06:20 AM 2/19/2004) wrote:

 >And somebody mentioned program storage modules...  I think the Palm
 >Pilot would be a great way to store programs.  The standard cradle has a
 >seriel port, and you can buy the low end Pilots for next to nothing.
 >Maybe a Frac-Rac module could be made that is a Pilot cradle on the
 >faceplace :)

OH SH*&^@*&^T DUDE!

You're gonna make me dig out my PalmOS dev kit aren't you?

Wow... Okay, there's the idea of the moment.


But Andrew... It'd be a computer in the studio! :)

We'd better not catch you running PocketTunes on there!

Mark