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

[Paul Maddox]

Grant,

  WHAT are you smoking?
:-)

Paul

On 9 Apr 2009, at 13:05, Grant Richter wrote:

> 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
>
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