DCO VCO and Hillary Clintons underwear!

[Martin Fay]

BJ wrote:
> But i have seen a single piece of shemo and software that actually
> does some sythesis of some kind!
> I feel it are lots of big words and no action!
> Maybe it is that people want to protect thier software or what!

Sort of...it happens it's possible to make money off this kind of 
stuff...

> I HATE software synths...

As is your right :)

> ok now before I get my head set upon by a
> bunch of flamewielding software programmers, they have their place
> in the market...

I feel I have to rise to the flamebait to debunk the following 
supposition:

> but SURELY the point of a modular is that it is
> OPEN and allows the user to do thing you cant, yes? so, ok I have my
> nord modular and I wanna make a bi-quad-VCA-with ring mod-XY
> transform synthesis-Hysteris filter-sigma delta unit  (dont ask).. I
> build it and now, how do I integrate it into my "OPEN" system,

Well...now that I have plugin support at the module level you code 
this as a plugin (VST or DirectX). The learning curve for that is 
certainly no worse than designing and building analogue modules from 
scratch.

And no, I'm not giving away my analogue gear.



Martin

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