[sdiy] Another new hard to find part....

[Scott Gravenhorst]

Hi Glen,

I know, no harm no foul.

The bottom line is this:

All approaches are valid.  I personally prefer to solder up an LFO et al.

But there's plenty of varied talent here, and for those who can make a
softsynth, they should knock themselves out.  Their approach is neither
better nor less than mine.  

Since I don't have time to learn *everything*, I concentrate on what I can.
 Even in the solder world, there are ideas I try to design myself and others
I just build from known working schematics.

As for our softsynth wizards, I can only say that I will appreciate your
efforts and hope that some of that becomes an open source softsynth that any
of us could load up and use.

For me, and I think many here, the point of all this is crafting something
(be it software or hardware) and then make music with it.

Glen <mclilith at charter.net> wrote:
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>At 11:39 AM 7/7/04 , Scott Gravenhorst wrote:
>
>>Here again: "it might be nice to have something like Knoppix optimized for
>>musical purposes."
>>
>>From your text, it's apparent it isn't.  And I can't do this myself, if I
>>could, I gladly would and I would make it open.  
>
>My comments weren't only directed at you.  ;)
>
>I'm hoping that someone with the required skill set, time, and desire might
>explore the idea. A long shot, but there's no harm in bringing up the idea,
>is there?
>
>There's already some variants on the Knoppix theme popping up. One fellow
>is creating a Knoppix variant that includes the latest version of the
>POV-Ray raytracing software, along with all the relevant 2-D and 3-D
>graphics utilities he can find. The idea is to simply insert a CD-R, and
>boot up an open-source 3-D rendering workstation, where a Windows business
>computer resided only moments before. I would like to see a musical
>workstation that functioned in this manner. 
>
>I wasn't trying to convince you to drop your soldering iron and start
>programing a new OS.  ;)
>
>
>later,
>Glen

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