[sdiy] Moogey jitter - the old times were the oldest.

[Richard Wentk]

At 14:13 21/04/2006, rude66 wrote:

>in the 80's everyone ran out to buy cd players and cd's, and threw their 
>old lp's in the garbage. vinyl was a thing of the past. and now? there are 
>more turntable manufactorers and models than in the golden days of vinyl. 
>in the hi end market, people pay 10's of thousands of $$ for record 
>players. pressing plants are at full capacity. why? because 'digital', 
>always the equivalent of 'better' , turned out in a lot of circumstances 
>not to be 'better' at all.

Either that, or people are idiots.

An industry that sells people hand-turned wooden knobs with a brass bushing 
for $500 on the basis that it makes the sound better can't be considered 
the domain of the rational.

See e.g.

http://www.audio-consulting.ch/DiscmanKit.htm

for more unfortunate examples.

>same with analogue synths. they simply sound better. we do a lot of live 
>gigs together with laptop artists, and each and every time we get asked 
>why our sound is so much better and fatter than the rest. the answer is 
>simple: analogue tr909 and basslines. over a big PA, it just blasts a 
>laptop to pieces.

That depends what kind of music you're trying to make. Analogue is only 
good for sounding analogue. If you want something that sounds analogue, 
digital can be a budget imitation. And I really do wonder how many people 
could tell the difference between Real Analogue [tm] and the very best 
digital simulations in blind testing.

But the big problem with analogue is it's very, very simple and musically 
rather stupid. And it's been used so much it's more or less impossible to 
do anything interesting or original with it. E.g. If you want to hook it up 
to video and convert a dancer's movements to music, it's way out of its 
league.

Richard