[sdiy] History of SDIY?

[Matthias Puech]

Hello list,

I'm relatively new to this community compared to the wise old-timers above,
but it seems to me like talking about which artifact is SDIY or not is
missing the point, really. What really makes this community special is *the
information itself* conveyed about how the artifact is made, independently
from how it is made. To me it's not a property of a particular piece of
soft/hardware but of the communication surrounding it.

So a thing that would be described only as "truly high-quality", with "a
whole lot of number crunching" involved (from the Serum product page)
wouldn't qualify because no effort is done to help you understand how it
works internally and where you should start if you wanted to program your
own. Whereas a thing which inner-workings is sufficiently documented,
whether it be with white papers, schematics or source code, does.

Other possible definition: you're talking about SDIY when any thread with
10+ replies turns has turned into a flame war about analog vs. digital vs.
smt (a "definition by Godwin point") :-P

Cheers,
     -m

On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 10:19 AM <paula at synth.net> wrote:

> now THAT is a thing of beauty.

> WHY would we exclude people who make things like that?


> On 2018-05-30 05:01, Scott Gravenhorst wrote:
> > Quincas Moreira <quincas at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Theres no arguing that serum is a synthesizer. But theres a
> >> difference between a synth that runs on a standard PC and one
> >> that runs on dedicated hardware. And synth diy has always been
> >> about BUILDING physical objects that are dedicated synthesizers.
> >> No diss on softsynths at all, they are not inferior, just a
> >> different philosophy, one that hasnt traditionally been
> >> associated with the common use of the term SDIY.
> >
> > You need to see this:
> > http://www.bluehell.nl/wren/index.php
> >
> > It runs on a PC, but it's truly Synth DIY.  As much as any boxed
> > synth.  I know the guy who
> > develops it.  The effort is highly similar.  The synth is the code.  I
> > never understood that
> > the SDIY forum was about only physical objects.  I've done both and in
> > my view, both are SDIY.
> >
> > -- ScottG
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