[sdiy] presets on a modular

[Richard Wentk]

At 01:20 13/11/2004 -0800, Don Tillman wrote:
>    > Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 12:27:47 +0000
>    > From: Richard Wentk <richard at skydancer.com>
>    >
>    > At 02:43 12/11/2004 -0800, Don Tillman wrote:
>    > >
>    > >The first is that they're way too complex.  Whether you measure
>    > >that by the parts count, by the cost, by the panel space, or by
>    > >the time spent building it, the value of the patching circuitry
>    > >comes in at several times the circuitry being patched.  Or more.
>    > >At that point it makes much more sense to just spend the
>    > >resources on more modules and dedicate some modules to some
>    > >patches.
>    >
>    > No it doesn't. As I said, professional musicians *want*
>    > patching. They've always wanted. On big modulars they put up with
>    > not having it, but if it were available they'd use it, and they'd
>    > pay to buy it.
>
>Sure, musicians want patching... but they want patching that doesn't
>suck.

Uh huh. And just *try* to float the instant patchable modular idea with the 
Hollywood crowd, and see if they don't come breaking your door down.

The big potential market here isn't synth nerds, it's jobbing musicians for 
whom time is money. The requirements are rather different.

I'm not even going to bother with the rest of your points. Your dislike of 
patching by program number is irrational and makes no sense. In the real 
world, musicians who have the facility use it, and use it gratefully. You 
can probably dig up some synth purists who have never, ever, in their 
entire lives, used a patch memory, but I think you're going to have a hard 
time finding someone who makes music using synths for a living within that 
group.

You also don't seem to understand that there's a difference between the 
interface layer and the hardware implementation layer. If you have a 
general purpose total recall hardware layer, you can build whatever 
interface you want on top of it, with whatever features you want. If you 
don't want numeric patch memories, you don't have to use them. It *is* DIY, 
after all. ;-)

Richard