Digital DIY synths?

[I Dream In 3D]

At 02:17 PM 1/7/99 +1030, Budweiser [FTS] wrote:
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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?
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>>-----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?
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>>>On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Irish wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 05 Jan 1999, Ben Stuyts typed:
>>>> >On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Troy Sheets wrote:
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>>>> >> 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!
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>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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><bUd>  is having a party
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I wrote a graphical WWW browser for the C64 about two years ago.  It was
painfully slow (took about an hour to view a page which was mostly text.)
and would crash whenever you ran into a script or JAVA, but it was still
cool.....well, atleast I thought it was.

Jason McMahon
experimental musician/electrician
i break things on purpose