[sdiy] History of SDIY?

[el macaco]

While I do think software synth designers should and do communicate here, that already has a name, coding.

Designing a product to market already build and ready to use is called manufacturing.

Assembling hardware parts to manufacture something yourself lacks a shorthand term so it’s Synth DIY.

Don Buchla and Bob Moog and there predecessors were not doing synth diy, they were inventing the very synth concept. 

If you code something and build the box to run it and it is a synth, synth diy.

If you build a computer yourself it’s computer DIY.

If you hack the software of existing hardware it’s coding.  

There are no rules that say you can’t discuss all things synth related.

Just a language thing, precision is key and anybody not joining based on the name or due to supreme snowflake status doesn’t want it bad enough.  Even a coward can lurk.

As for the history of SDIY, since 99/2000 when I joined with a few gap years in between, there have been fewer arguments than visible in this thread, and I don’t think anyone has been banned, although many do have the freedom to be ridiculous.

El


> On Jun 2, 2018, at 2:58 PM, Rob Kam <robkam at gmx.com> wrote:
> 
> Worth mentioning only because it implements additive synthesis.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Synth-diy [mailto:synth-diy-bounces at synth-diy.org] On Behalf Of Ingo Debus
> Sent: 02 June 2018 12:02
> To: SDIY <synth-diy at synth-diy.org>
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] History of SDIY?
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>> Am 01.06.2018 um 14:05 schrieb Rob Kam <robkam at gmx.com>:
>> 
>> They predate electronics so I’ll leave them out. Although Hammond organs and tone wheels will get a mention.
>> 
> 
> Though it’s questionable that a tonewheel organ qualifies as an electronic instrument. You can turn the power for the electronics completely off, connect a high-impedance headphone directly to the tonewheel generator and still get sound. The electronics are only required for amplification (and envelope shaping for percussion) but not for tone generation. An electric guitar isn’t considered an electronic instrument either.
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> Ingo
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