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RE: VC EGs

2000-02-02 by Nathan Alan Hunsicker

I second (or third) that statement. What good is an analog modular if you
have to "surf" through an abysmal menu system to change or see your
settings.  -Nate


> From:
>"Tkacs, Ken" <Ken.Tkacs@...>
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>I have to echo this sentiment. Unless there's REALLY no way to do something
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>(as with the complexity of a sequencer, perhaps), personally I'd rather
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>stick to knobs & switches.
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>I already have a room full of ESQ-Ms, TX-81Zs, various Proteus modules,
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>DVP-1s, and so on and so on... all with little weenie displays and data
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>knobs... and what do I do? I decided to go buy a modular synthesizer to get
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>*away* from it all. I would hate to see my modular start looking like my
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>rack of Proteuses (Proteii?).
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>            -----Original Message-----
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>            From:      Eric S. Crawley [mailto:esc@...]
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>            Sent:      Tuesday, February 01, 2000 10:53 PM
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>            To:      motm@onelist.com
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>            Subject:      RE: [motm] VC EGs
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>            I'd rather have lots of little EGs
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>            than one massive one that I can't visualize the shape of
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>because I need to
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>            scroll through multiple "menues" of encoded values.  The
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>reason I like
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>            modulars is that I can see everything that is part of a
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>patch and can
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>            easily visualize the shape and settings by the knobs or
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>sliders.  Let's
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>            stay away from anything that takes encoders, except for
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>sequencers.
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