[sdiy] EMS SYNTHI 100

[Richard Wentk]

On 24 Feb 2009, at 06:54, David G. Dixon wrote:

>>> I must admit I nearly split my tea when I read the price. But then
>>> I got thinking;
>>>
>>> Would anyone here offer to build one for less?
>>
>> I'll build you a polyphonic software one in an evening or two.
>>
>
> Yeah, but would it be plastered with knobs, switches and blinking  
> lights?

No, it wouldn't. But it would have memories, patch morphing and  
randomisation, you'd be able to play it from a MIDI sequencer, it  
wouldn't take three days to recreate a patch, and future maintenance  
costs would be zero.

And if you wanted ten of them, you could have ten of them.

> There's a reason people are still buying and building analog  
> synthesizers,
> and I suspect that it has very little to do with how "powerful"  
> they are
> relative to soft synths.

For something like this, I suspect the real reasons are consumer  
status-symbol posturing and nostalgia.

Richard