[sdiy] History of SDIY?

[Stephan Vladimir Bugaj]

If the topic is "the history of this mailing list" as opposed to "the 
history of DIY synthesis in general", then "hardware good, software bad" 
would be the way to go for sure

_ S

------ Original Message ------

>On Wed, 30 May 2018, Tom Wiltshire wrote:
>>“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.
>
>Without taking a position on whether software DIY is real DIY, it 
>remains
>that hardware DIY is what I joined this list to read about and discuss.
>
>--
>Matthew Skala
>mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca                 People before principles.
>http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/
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