[sdiy] presets on a modular

[Richard Wentk]

At 10:00 15/11/2004 -0700, Scott Gravenhorst wrote:
>I hope that this is not a negative comment.  The market always does this, 
>but not
>_because_ it's the LCD.  LCD often denotes a negative feeling as if the market
>has been disloyal or unfeeling or disregarding of a "higher" value.  The 
>truth is
>that markets don't go for LCD, they go for the largest base of potential
>customers.  This often appears as LCD, but that is not the reason it happens.

>I get tired of the bemoaning against corporations that do this, they wouldn't
>exist if they only produced loftier goal products because the price would 
>be so
>prohibitive that they'd sell the 6 units that the wealthy can afford and 
>then go
>out of business.
>
>The real problem here is that people, in general, do not discriminate much
>between what is good and bad, real and fake.

I thought that was the definition of LCD?

>Most people hearing a digital
>rompler piano will say it sounds like a piano, not "piano like".  It is their
>"deafness" that creates these market conditions, not that corporations are
>somehow evil or subversive.  Yes, they do it on purpose, but not to screw
>musicians, rather they do it to survive.

It's lucky Microsoft doesn't make synths. :-)

Richard