[sdiy] Moogey jitter

[Richard Wentk]

At 11:03 21/04/2006, René Schmitz wrote:

>Most of which is done in the digital domain nowadays. (MS20, Arturia 
>etc...) Not much of what is possible in the digital domain has really 
>caught on on a big scale (and this even for years, but who uses CSOUND...)

You mean apart from the fact that the VSTi market is buzzing, while 
hardware synths are limping along?

Look at Absynth, or Camel 5000, or Reaktor, or Max/MSP. These are not 
side-shows. They're more important to many working musicians - as opposed 
to diletantte hardware collectors - than recent hardware efforts.

>Innovations are there, but they aren't a radical new take, evolution 
>instead of revolution.

Depends what you mean by a radical take. Physical modelling? Granular 
synthesis? Resynthesis?

There are some fantastically original things in the Reaktor user library, 
from Metaphysical Function to Rachmiel. They may not use an all-new 
uber-algorithm, but they don't need to, because they're putting existing 
techniques together in completely new ways. And making completely new sounds.

And go look at Synful while you're at it. Is that not much more interesting 
than anything to appear in hardware form in the last ten years?

Richard