[sdiy] Professional magazine for EMI manuf. ?

[David J. Hughes]

Paul,

on 7/1/05 10:07 AM, Paul Maddox at P.Maddox at signal.QinetiQ.com wrote:

>> Some of them were, others such as the Spectrum Synthesiser, were not.
> 
> who cares?
> They made noises, noises from things you built.
> As dave says, the SynTom and ilk were good simple projects to get started,
> but more than that, they were projects you could use.

I often wonder what happened to my SynTom. It got nicked from college years
ago. Probably propping up some landfill site. Sniff...
 
> another good point, some of those interviews were fascinating reading.
> Sometimes you even had a bit of a score in there (I'm Still trying to find
> the Choronzon score that was published).

I have it here, Paul. Shout if you want me to photocopy it for you.
 
> yeah, exactly, I bough E&MM every month, I only bought ETI when there was
> something musical in it.

Same here. I still have a bunch of ETI's from 1980 with loads of musical
projects in them plus the '100 Circuit Special' by Tim Orr. Are these
available on the net?

> Who cares about automatic windscreen wiper delay timers when you're into
> synths?

You could try sampling the windscreen wipers on an old (pre-VW) Skoda. I
defy anyone to synthesise a noise like that.
 
> Things like Electronotes are still revereared, the technology isn't out of
> date, its still valid.
> Just now there are a lot more things out there.

Precisely my point. VST plug-ins may be enormously good fun but, given that
I spent 60% of my life programming sequencers, why in buggeration would I
want to spend my free time hacking code? This is why I bought the ASM-2
board! To build stuff... Not forgetting the SpaceForMusic SoundLab and
Oakley TB3030 I also have on the bench.
 
> I don't think it should be limited to purely hardware (where do draw the
> line, for example, is a VIrus hardware or software?).

Same with Zeit. It's a system. You can't have software without a system to
run it on.

> So, a suggestion, Lets stop talking about it, and do it..

OK.

> if it works, great, if it bombs, so what, we tried.

At least we tried...

> I've got a domain taht would be ideal ;- Www.SynthMakers.Net
> so, I'll host it for free and lets get some contributers.
> 
> Who would like to Contribute and what can you bring to it?

I have two installments of "How Zeit works" which were originally published
in Sequences Magazine in 2003. I'd be happy to donate those.

David

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