Archival Electronics

[Rob]

(snip)
> What would it take to remove analog synths from the gene pool?  Much
> better modeling, much better programability (including extensibility),
> much better user interface, far less demanding musicians, and no
> interesting further developments in analog synthesis.
>
>   -- Don
>

To remove analog synths completely from the gene pool, someone would have to
make an open language that would allow a person to effectively *build* their
own modules and add knobs as needed for a rather small expense.

The only thing that comes close to this is the nord modular, but I dont
think on the nord modular you can actually program completely new sounding
modules such as filters,

 i WISH they had a filter where you could literally DRAW the filter response
curve at EVERY setting of Q if need be and it would "tween" if you only
wanted to draw, say, a start and end response for the Q..
OR maybe make it able to import .csv files from frequency response curves.
This would take prlly more power than theyve got right now i believe.

Whats everyone think of that? I think this type of interface power would
have us looking far more closely at things like the micromodular and nord
mod.

But, alas, there is always just something about having that stinky ass
pressed cardboard and resin pcbs, big knobbed synths laying around.
A piece of nostalgic history. It has meaning if nothing else.

Rob