[sdiy] presets on a modular

[Richard Wentk]

At 15:14 15/11/2004 -0500, WeAreAs1 at aol.com wrote:

>I certainly can, just as I and many others can, with surprisingly
>good accuracy, recognize a Minimoog on a given recording, regardless of its
>patch settings.

I'll bet you can't if it's just a state tone though.

A huge part of Minimoogness comes from the fact that it's a solo monosynth, 
and most often used as such. If you *don't* play it like a monosynth, 
inexplicably it often stops sounding like one.

This was my point about how expression shapes perception of timbre.

Anyway, it's still a case of 'so what?' You're talking about a synth that 
for the most part only makes three sounds - filter closed for smooth, 
filter open for buzz, and Fat Bass [tm]. Occasionally people go wild and 
tune one of the oscs up a fifth, but that's as exciting as it gets.

This is completely irrelevant to a modular where the timbral range could 
be, and should be, unimaginably vast in comparison.

Richard