[sdiy] Synthesizer by Committee

[Scott Nordlund]

I was wondering how they got the price to be so reasonable (1500 
Euros for 8 voice keyboard, 1000 for rack).  If all you've done is 
design the front panel, I guess it's easy to imagine it's no big deal.
I want to skip to the part where everyone's complaining on forums 
that it sounds "flat" and "digital" and "not punchy".

Personally I won't be interested until they add a 512 voice 
physical modeling engine that simulates an orchestra, real time, 
latency-free polyphonic transcription of any audio input, and the
ability to compose music according to voice commands, i.e. "Make a
mashup of Tiësto, Stockhausen and Napalm Death.  Zoom and enhance.
 Now compress it to shit."

I hope they don't increase the price, though, that would be really lame.


> From: grant at musictechnologiesgroup.com
> To: analogue at hyperreal.org
> Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 09:24:11 -0700
> CC: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Subject: [sdiy] Synthesizer by Committee
> 
> 
> "The German online music magazine Amazona.de has “designed” an
> analog music synthesizer, basically using the results of a poll of its
> readership as to what they'd like to see in such a machine. The
> description of the “Tyrell” starts on that first webpage, but rather
> than clicking through each separate page of the article, press the
> “drucken” (print) button. This will call up the article on a single
> large webpage that can be translated all at once by Google's translator.
> What you get is sometimes incomprehensible English, but just enough to
> figure out what they are getting at. It's pretty ambitious."
> 
> http://www.audioxpress.com/audiobytz/synthesizer_by_committee.htm
> 
> 
> 
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