[sdiy] History of SDIY?

[john slee]

This reads a little too far toward the "and get off my lawn!" end of the
scale for my liking. Opinions, eh?

Does the SDIY Supreme Council approve of the below (IMO glorious) creation?:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYLBjScgb7o

John

On 2 June 2018 at 21:11, Gordonjcp <gordonjcp at gjcp.net> wrote:

> On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 09:47:00AM +0200, pinoaffe wrote:
> > On 05/31/2018 09:08 AM, Gordonjcp wrote:
> > >Modular isn't really synthesis though.
> >
> > why?
>
> I should really have written "synth DIY" rather than synthesis there.
>
> For the same reason that softsynths aren't.  You're not really making
> anything, you're just sticking bits together.
>
> The whole modular scene has gotten ridiculous, with folk charging
> obscene amounts of money for badly-made clones of 1970s and 1980s synth
> sections, no real appreciation of how they go together as a whole.  It
> seems like what you do is find a circuit on someone's website, rip off
> their PCB layout, snotter it together because soldering technique
> doesn't matter as long as you can find proper genuine 1982 JRC4558
> opamps because nothing else sounds quite the same, and then stick an
> eyewatering front panel on and give it a stupid name.
>
> Maybe that's what I'm doing wrong, maybe I should stop doing audio
> routing stuff and concentrate on selling shitty vactrol lowpass gates
> built on Veroboard for €450 a throw.  Ladies, gentlemen and those who
> don't fit either category, I give you - the LimeElephantCustard
> CocoCuckooDingleDingleDingleberry!  <muffled car alarm noises, getting
> more and less muffled occasionally> Doesn't it sound amazing?  Get yours
> *TODAY*!
>
> --
> Gordonjcp
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