[sdiy] Modular - sound or song

[paul.maddox.mail-list at synth.net]

Ian,

   :-) you fell into the trap.

The problem isn't the software, it's the user interface.

Here, I'm with you 110%.

I love my Chameleon, it lets me try ideas that would take me wakes to  
build in hardware and cost me a fortune in parts. but I *LOATHE* the  
UI, 3 knobs and a crappy 2*16 LCD is just utterly insane!

The synth can have the most fantastic synth engine, but if the UI  
sucks, it's just never gonna get used properly. Additive synthesis and  
FM synthesis both suffer enormously because of this.

what the world needs a decent UI's for synths, be they analogue,  
digital, dsp or software, it's all about control.

Paul


> I'm going to be equally controversial... I can drive just fine, but   
> put me in one of those arcade racing games and I'm fraked because I   
> can't feel the road. Likewise, I can do the software synths with   
> little trouble, but I get bogged down in the damn menus. There's   
> nothing to touch. Sure, I could probably get some MIDI device with   
> lots of knobs on it and assign them to the various knobs on the soft  
>  synth but that takes a hell of a lot of time. I feel like the   
> software stunts my creativity. Even the modular software synths like  
>  Synfactory. It's just not the same. I dunno, maybe it's just  
> because  I didn't grow up with a computer.
> *shrug*
> -Ian (way too old to be 26) Smith
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