Digital DIY synths?

Ben Stuyts ben at stuyts.nl
Wed Jan 6 10:30:02 CET 1999


On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Irish wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Jan 1999, Ben Stuyts typed:
> >On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Troy Sheets wrote:
>
> >> I just think analog circuits
> >> have more "life" in them... they breathe and pulsate and you can hear
> >> the electrons squirting through your circuits.   Digital is just more
> >> sterile and mathmatic.
> >
> >There's just as much electrons in them DSP's... This sound like it could
> grow >out to an audiophile type of war. TUBES, USE TUBES! B-)
>
> Tubes? You use tubes? Why, there WAY too sterile and precise.
> Use Switches!  Lots of switches and knobs and relays! You can *definetly*
> feel the electrons in a setup like that! :P

Switches? You had switches? Man, we had to bang two rocks together to get any  
sound and use lightning for special effects. And we were grateful for it.

I feel a Monty Python thread coming up...

Best regards,
Ben



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