[sdiy] Synth UI [was: Modular - sound or song]

[Grant Richter]

The debate that the Muses are best served by by the unlimited  
potential of dadaist and surrealist technique was first proposed in  
the 1910s and 1920s.
Latter scholars with with the Workshops for Potential Media have  
proposed that the actual artistic act is the is the overcoming of the  
restraints which are inherent to any aritistic media.

The debate can only go on for centuries as each technological advance  
brings with it a hidden black bag full of assumption about what "no  
on sensible person will ever want to do with the technology'. But the  
black bags have a way of unfolding while being opened, revealing even  
more artistic "tricks" the artist may find essential to make a  
complete artistic statement.

My guess is the interactive change and and evolutionary changes will  
product astonishing results for centuries to come.



> I do agree that having a physical knob to control every parameter  
> of a sound can be great, but to control what is possible in digital  
> with physical knobs very quickly gets to the point where many  
> parameters have to share the same knob, and then you start getting  
> into buttons and menus (often on tiny LCD screens).  I can  
> understand why this puts people off (it puts me off too!)
>
> And computer based 'copycat' synths usually just emulate analog  
> panel layouts on screen with a load of tiny controls.
>


"My pink half of the drainpipe.... separates me from the incredibly  
fascinating story of your life and every day to day event in each and  
every tedious attempt into detail: was it a Thursday or a Wednesday  
or - what the hell does it matter? because you're normal and if  
you're normal I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life and I  
shall baffle you with cabbages and rhinos in the kitchen and  
incessant quotations from Now We Are Six through the mouthpiece of  
Lord Snooty's giant poisoned electric head. So there!" - Vivian  
Stanshall