Why DIY? (was Re: [sdiy] Another new hard to find part....)

[Ken Stone]

>From: "Richard Wentk" <richard at skydancer.com>
>>
>> It's possible some of you guys haven't been keeping up with the softsynth
>> world recently. But when I can patch together a custom 32 step sequencer,
>> with logic functions, MIDI and/or LFO sync, and assorted interesting
>> modulation possibilities in an evening in Reaktor, and then load it as a
>> preset, complete with my favourite sequences, why would I want to spend
>> three months designing and building a hardware equivalent?
>>
>> There comes a point where having pretty lights and rows of knobs just
>isn't
>> enough any more. ;-)

1) To some people, the journey is more important than the destination.

2) If we all bow to the great commercial gods and buy their products, we
will all sound the same.

I have been pondering why people bother with expensive analog effects when
there are these DSP things tha come with over 100 different effects in them,
so I bought myself a couple of them. Now I KNOW why people still want these
expensive old analog things.

Ken (still hasn't worked out what Midi is actually useful for).
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