Digital DIY synths?

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-----Original Message-----
From: Arthur Harrison <theremin1 at worldnet.att.net>
To: DIY <synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl>
Date: Thursday, January 07, 1999 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: Digital DIY synths?


>
>-----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!
>



I wish some of you would get a life....like join my life long hobby of
trying
to get a Gameboy to run Windows NT.... and network it to a c64, and Sun
Sparc....


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