[sdiy] vco's

[Steve Carter]

It's always difficult with two, often conflicting, disciplines.  When  
I work in the studio, I'm not interested in gear, I am in musician  
mode and reach for tools, hardware or software, which will help me  
achieve my musical goal.  When something is 'in the mix', the  
musicality of the sound is all that's important - whether its  
mathematical approximation is flawed or its S/N ratio is poor are just  
not an issue. As an electronics engineer however, I am not interested  
one bit in soft synths - it's all about electronics and designing/  
building the best sounding modules.  I feel fortunate that my  
electronics purist self doesn't get in the way of my musicianship as  
that would be a real problem!

I'm convinced that guys with modular synths were denied a really good  
train set when they were younger - I include myself in that category  
too :-)

Steve



On 8 Apr 2009, at 00:18, Seb Francis wrote:

> In short, if I want a basic analog sound then I might still use real  
> analog gear, but for more complex, interesting sounds I'm reaching  
> for the software more and more.  And I know this is the same  
> throughout many dance music studios - and is it causing a drop in  
> quality?  I don't think so: in dance music there is higher  
> production quality and more amazing sounds around now than ever  
> before.