Wiardgroup

The change is in me.
Synths are no worse, nor are synth magazines.
i've just lost my youthful ability to be cheerfully oblivious to the
ubiquitious down-side, and focus with ardent desire on that one
holy-grail piece of gear (du jour!)i wanted. i remember clearly how
much i iconized my first 2600 and later, my Xpander. Hell! i remember
how dazzled i was at the ravishing sleekness of the DX7 .... oblivious
to how thoroughly that sleekness would handcuff me when i tried to
adjust a velocity response.....

Well said. There really is little difference. I just think there is a lot more of the same. We used to have to look pretty hard for the magazines or wait a whole month for another issue. Now with 24 hour news cycles, no sign off on television and unbelievable amounts of information on the internet it appears to be worse. The same quality and lack of quality is there. The same hype as well. I was just looking through a 1974 issue of Crawdaddy magazine yesterday. The adds are the best part. Even better are the downloads of Polyphony on Cynthia's website. When I think back on those times , they seem so pure. But ,in reality there was little difference to now. Age does change our perspective. I also used to drool over car magazines in the mid '60's , picturing myself in that Ferrari, Maserati or Lamborghini. Now I'm perfectly content to tool around in my Toyota Corrolla and go home to a home studio of mostly older gear. Not necessarily vintage, just older. It works for me. I also remember being "dazzled" enough to sell my Synthi AKS in order to buy a Siel DK-600 and a Fostex cassette 4-track. Ooh, I wished I hadn't remembered that. Now I won't be able to sleep tonight. Harry D