Digital DIY synths?

[List, Christopher]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Ben Stuyts [SMTP:ben at stuyts.nl]
> Sent:	Tuesday, January 05, 1999 6:56 PM
> To:	Harvey Devoe Thornburg
> Subject:	Re: Digital DIY synths?
> 
> In contrast to a few of the replies here, I do not consider the whole
> 
> software thing more difficult or less arty than the hardware approach.
> I think  
> it is more a state of mind thing. I think one can just as well enjoy
> tweaking  
> a musical algorithm for sound quality (or lack of! B-)) and
> performance, as  
> one can enjoy tweaking R's and C's.
> Best regards,
> Ben
> 
	I firmly agree, and while I personally have stayed away from
DSP, and while there were a lot of negatively-biased to your original
post, I encourage and request more discussion on this topic here on this
list. "Analog" is not part of the synth-diy charter.

	OTOH, I'd like to mention my own big reason for staying away
from DSP, and it's purely a matter of practicality and laziness...
	...Everything I've made from scratch (about 20 or 30 modules
now) has been made on pad-per-hole "vectorboard". SMD components and
wide data buses are a pain in the ass on vectorboard. :)

	- CList