[sdiy] EMS SYNTHI 100

[David G. Dixon]

> > 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.

Abhsolutely I agree, particularly about the nostalgia part.  I think a big
selling point of modulars is the fact that many of us drooled over pictures
of them when we were little but couldn't have them.  Now we can.

However, having said that, I know that I have more fun twiddling the knobs
on my little Sound Lab Mini Synth than I ever had with any soft synth
program (except Reason: that's some serious fun!).  It really has to do with
having physical knobs to twiddle (and assigning functions to sliders on a
MIDI keyboard controller is not the same!).  Now I'm also finding that
understanding what is going on in the circuits really adds to the fun (as
does having a scope to look at while twiddling!).