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Grant,

You are hereby invited to visit my home studio anytime and see whether I any
part of my modular is beyond my capacity to apply musically.  :-)

John Loffink
The Microtonal Synthesis Web Site
http://www.microtonal-synthesis.com
The Wavemakers Synthesizer Web Site
http://www.wavemakers-synth.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: grantrichter2001 [mailto:grichter@asapnet.net]


> Electronic music equipment designers have created a box of
> paints so enormous that you can't lift the lid anymore.
> 
> Or, if you can get the lid off, the box is big enough to get lost
> inside.
> 
> The point I see him making is that instrument design has
> progress far faster than the capacity to apply it musically. This is
> what I mean about "designs for Martians". I know mathematically
> that certain designs have application for music generation.
> 
> But we haven't begun to understand how to apply the simplest
> ADSR from the 60's, much less advanced designs like a MARF.
> 
> The designers of the 60's were designing for a future that has
> not occured yet, and I am designing for a future that may never
> occur at all.
>