Wiardgroup

--- In wiardgroup@yahoogroups.com, "drmabuce" <drmabuce@...> wrote:
>
> The problem with large-scale integration designs is that they
> impose a choice between catering to the 'bug-music' (sic) 
> aficionados or the 1V/oct. fans (with their DVMs).

While I agree that 'Please all please none' is a slippery slope, I 
believe where Grant's designs perhaps excel most is their ability 
to produce sounds that are incredibly useful musically, REGARDLESS 
OF HOW A PARTICULAR INDIVIDUAL DEFINES "MUSICAL." From Wogglebug'd 
glitch noise to Olivier's beautiful soundscapes to Gary's "Kingdom 
Hospital" work to Isotope 217's jazzy hip-hop, the Wiard seems to 
me the most genre agnostic electronic instrument ever invented. I 
have heard Grant say before that he'd like The Wierd to be usable 
as a child's toy as well as a professional's instrument!

Whether Grant eventually decides to produce a "normalized" single 
panel synth or simply elects to provide a laptop case designed to 
house 1200-series modules, I am certain it will prove exceedingly 
useful for all musician-types. (That includes my 2-year old son, 
Ethan, whose budding talent on the Wiard joysticks has replaced my 
PSIM as primary source of low frequency oscillations to drive twin 
JAGs. How's that for MARF?) I have no concerns re: Grant's ability 
to engineer adequate flexibility into his design. The keys will be 
to conceive a user interface that makes it sufficiently easy for 
novice synthesists to create sounds that they find pleasing and to 
introduce said instrument into the public consciousness. Perhaps 
Grant could name it the "Wiard Easyl?"

> what would -everybody- buy?

Toilet paper (to steal from Gary's previous MARF suggestion)

Just my penny or two's worth,

Chris