Digital DIY synths?

[Arthur Harrison]

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Stuyts <ben at stuyts.nl>
To: irish at eskimo.com <irish at eskimo.com>
Cc: synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl <synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl>
Date: Wednesday, January 06, 1999 3:48 AM
Subject: Re: Digital DIY synths?


>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.

Well, you guys just don't know how bad things can be until you try building
an amplifier from nothing more than a neon lamp and some ordinary carbon
rods!

-Art