Analog (Mis)information

[Don Tillman]

   Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 23:47:12 -0800
   From: haines at quick.net (Matt Haines)

   >       Hello, fellow analoguers -
   >           I was browsing the web, and found this poor misguided
   >      chap saying things like " The filter has little to do with the 
   >      "sound" as that word is normally used..." (in reference to
   >      the MiniMoog). 

   We all did this conversation about a month ago. Where were you?

I *think* what happened was that we had this conversation on AH a
while ago, DBALVAGE independently posted this to SYNTH-DIY, and you
just replied to that but sent your reply to back AH instead.

But really, it's not a big deal.  While he's written the text in an
inflammatory manner, Hinton's got a very important point: When you're
treating the synth as a Musical Instrument, the total effect of all
the little things that contribute to the soul and the spirit of the
playing experience is far more important than how much third harmonic
distortion is present when the filter is being overdriven.  So in that
context, a solid feel of the keyboard, a hardwood case, quality pots
that respond to the touch, the right controls doing the right things,
all that stuff is far more inportant to him than the specific circuit
used in the filter because he's treating the beast holistically as a
Musical Instrument.

I can't disagree.

(Some of his stuff is dead wrong though.  The line about 4-pole
filters not lending themselves to theoretical analysis for instance.)

  -- Don