AW: tubes, transistors......

[Don Tillman]

   Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 11:32:41 -0500
   From: "Bill Layer" <b.layer at vikingelectronics.com>

   Juergen's comments have raised a deep and perplexing Zen-type issue, that
   is: What is the actual sound of an electronic instrument? The design or the
   parts or the patch or???? 

   A logically related question is: what is the sound of an instrument, if not
   the sum of it's fundamental and distortion products, irrespective of the
   source of that distortion? How is it defined? How should we define it?

These questions are in an extremely reductionist context, which is
highly unzenlike.

The zen student learns that breaking things up into little bits and
asking which is the heart is not the path to enlightenment.

  -- Don