[sdiy] EMS SYNTHI 100

[Michael Bechard]

I'll second this notion, and also add that I'm big into digital music
synthesis via CSound. Again, capable of waaaay more sonic power than
any number of VCSs could provide. However, I seem to have run into a
creative wall, so to speak, in trying to find certain sounds. I'm
hoping that getting into analogue synths will provide me with some
fresh tools with which to mangle sound. Digital and analog don't have
to be exclusive, IMO.

Michael Bechard


----- Original Message ----
From: David G. Dixon <dixon at interchange.ubc.ca>
To: Richard Wentk <richard at skydancer.com>; synth DIY <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 2:37:47 PM
Subject: RE: [sdiy] EMS SYNTHI 100

> > 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!).

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