[sdiy] History of SDIY?

[paula at synth.net]

THIS ON SO MANY LEVELS!!!!

On 2018-05-29 19:42, Roman wrote:

> After reading all commets so far I'm not sure if I would back a 
> kickstarter project about SDIY history book. Which seemed like a great 
> idea when I saw the topic at first.
> It makes no point arguig what is synth and what is not. Everyone has 
> own definition. Does it makes sound using electricity? Can you make 
> music with it? OK, so a guitar is possibly not a synthesizer, but I 
> would say guitar amp is pretty close. How about calling it MDIY, like 
> music DIY?
> Analog or software, what's the difference, someone had to do it 
> him/her-self. Isn't SDIY a freeware synth program made by some hobbyist 
> for fun? Voltage control or any control - why is this a requirement? 
> Isn't simple drone oscillator an example of SDIY? R&D vs DIY - so you 
> wake up one day, without any prior DIY experience, and decide - today 
> I'm gonna start R&D on a smashing commercial hit synthesizer, right? I 
> don't think so. Every kind of DIY can gradually turn into R&D, 
> sometimes after years, when you notice that something you did for fun 
> is possibly a good product to consider making commercially. And what is 
> wrong in making pure DIY stuff using modern tools and services, so it's 
> almost ready to start mass production? If you know how to do it right 
> the first time, why not use that knowledge? Must every true-DIY circuit 
> be made on a stripboard?
> How can anything be done yourself without any research and development? 
> Is it only when one starts doing something, not knowing what it will be 
> like, and what will it do anyway? OTOH today SDIY means "put out the 
> componets from the bag and solder to supplied board according to 
> graphical instructions. No schematics included". So yes, that's far 
> from R&D.
> 
> Roman
> 
> Dnia 29 maja 2018 17:53 Quincas Moreira <quincas at gmail.com> napisał(a):
> 
> AFAIK synthesizers began with voltage control. That is, 1957, Don and 
> Bob both designing the first modulars. There are electronic musical 
> instruments that precede the modular of course, but again, for 
> clarity's sake, it's useful to have things well defined.  I think a 
> Synthesizer is an electronic musical instrument or sound design tool 
> made of of different parts which affect each other, via voltage control 
> or other means.
> A Theremin doesn't qualify as it's an oscillator and a VCA controlled 
> manually, but don't control affect each other. Similarly a Laboratory 
> Function Generator or Oscillator as were used in early electronic music 
> are not synths, as they have no provision for external control other 
> than a hand turning a knob.
> 
> BTW, I can be wrong and am willing to admit it if a compelling counter 
> argument is made. By no means do I propose to have the definitive 
> answer to any of these questions but I find the discussion interesting 
> and stimulating, possibly even meaningful :)
> 
> On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 10:35 AM, Florian Anwander 
> <fanwander at mnet-online.de> wrote:
> Am 29.05.2018 um 17:23 schrieb Scott Gravenhorst:
> 
> It is
> simply "Synthesizer Do It Yourself", a definition in 4 words that I 
> personally find sufficient.
> The last 3 words are pretty easy to nail down, but the first is, well, 
> any darn thing we want.
> Something "DIY" is very different from "R&D" or even inventing. "DIY" 
> means doing/building somthing yourself which you could buy too.
> 
> So Synth-DIY can't start befor the existence of synths produced and 
> sold under industrial or at least economical conditions.
> 
> Florian
> 
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