[sdiy] History of SDIY?

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Except Deep Note. That's definitely a synth. ;-).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Note


On 5/30/2018 4:00 AM, Tom Wiltshire wrote:
> I’ll offer you some support, Quincas. I agree.
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> For me, if you port Serum to an ARM chip and put in in a module, behind a panel, with some knobs, then yes, that process _does_ turn it into a synthesiser. Mutable Instruments was mentioned earlier, and that’s exactly what the Mutable modules are, and that’s perfectly valid. The point at which you do that is the point at which your “software” becomes “firmware”, and many synths have lots of that. And _of course_ it’s a grey area and a fuzzy line - that’s fine too.
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> “Synthesizer” for me means “hardware synthesiser” because for years that was the only kind. They didn’t say “hardware synth" in 1970 because they didn’t need to. Only _much_ later did software come along that could do the same job as a synthesiser, but a soft synth is still just software. Again, like Quincas, no disrespect intended - I write a lot of software and I’m not going to complain at anyone else for doing the same. But for me, it doesn’t fit the original definition of “synthesiser”.
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