Analogue systems

Hi and welcome to the group.

My reply to your first email is a response to your comments about 
digital modules from a company called "Anlogue" Systems.

It would be very easy for Analogue Systems to take the easy route and 
just recycle 30 to 40 year old ideas and designs. Some people would 
still buy them.

In my opinion, analogue synthesis has come of age. It still does some 
things better than anything else, but these days - it is not the only 
way to synthesise. Bob Williams has his head firmly in this century 
and is willing to risk a great deal to try to create new ideas as well 
as re-creating some of the most loved modules/effects from the past. 

In the 80s we had digitally controled analogue synths which allowed 
poliphonic synthesis for mass production (and credible cost). Now we 
have a chance to control digital equipment from an analogue source - 
so the balance has been restored and as far as I can see, this can 
only be for the good of all of us.

This could be a great debating area, does anyone else want to add to 
it?

Regards

Dave.



--- In analogue_systems@yahoogroups.com, "Giwalo" <fuhler@e...> wrote:
> hello all
> my first message here so I guess a little introduction is 
apropriate:
> I'm an improvising musician from Amsterdam/Holland (trained as a 
> pianist) and I work a lot with analogue stuff and personal 
> modifications to it. The last years mostly on the EMS Synthi AKS but 
> also on a hybrid doepfer/AS (well 90 % AS really). 
> I was just looking on the module list on the AS site and saw the 
> spring reverb has disapeared. I personaly love the sound of springs
> (I have 2 AS spring modules myself, and have attatched other 
springs)
> and I really think there is no digital substitute. 
> Digital reverbs etc. can be great, but it's a different 
> soundworld/domain altogether I think....
> Lately there has been a lot of focus on the digital domain by AS and 
> that makes me wonder.
> It's called ANALOGUE systems after all....
> And I'm a big fan of AS, that's why I'm a bit disapointed an 
esential 
> module like the spring-reverb is gone
> What do you people think about this?
> be