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<div>> and THIS is precisely why I feel defining something is BAD.</div>
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<div>I'd like to see you solder something with a banana. Yes of course the 4-wheeled, 5-doored banana. By wheels I mean chocolate chips. You know, those with 45% lead.<br/>
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<div>"Defining something" is not the problem, or not a bigger one than mostly anything else. It's not perfect or always obvious, like it tends to be with everything humans do. E.g. "taxonomists" don't have it easy, and some doodoo heads claim it's all arbitrary, although my dog, that son of a bitch, never wanted to meow.
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In this particular instance:<br/>
To claim "making software synths yourself" was somehow not "doing synths yourself", eventhough there is an agreement that a "software synth" *is* "a synth", is a contradictory statement, or just plain wrong.<br/>
At least if one is going with actual meanings of words.<br/>
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Now there are people who think in the first split second when some label for something appeared, the limited context of that time is somehow frozen for eternity, even though the higher concept of the things being referenced clearly permits inclusion of more things still covered by the abstract concept.<br/>
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I'd say those people are wrong, but I have nothing precisely to say about that atm ^^</div>
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<b>Von:</b> paula@synth.net<br/>
<b>An:</b> "Stephan Vladimir Bugaj" <stephan@bugaj.com><br/>
<b>Cc:</b> "synth-diy mailing list" <synth-diy@synth-diy.org><br/>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: [sdiy] History of SDIY?</div>
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> This belief is why so few of us "purely" software folks find their way<br/>
> to this list, sadly<br/>
> I hardly see why Serum (predominantly written by two people in their<br/>
> homes) wouldn't be SDIY, yet many of the Eurorack builders would be<br/>
> If you ported Serum to, say, ARM and put it in a box with some knobs on<br/>
> it, it would magically transform from "not a synthesizer" into a<br/>
> synthesizer?<br/>
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and THIS is precisely why I feel defining something is BAD.<br/>
BY defining it you are limiting it, I do NOT believe we should be<br/>
shunning software synth people.<br/>
Their craft lies in their code.<br/>
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> Paula, if you water down the definition too much it becomes<br/>
> meaningless. 99% of people I know, when they think SDIY they think of<br/>
> hardware synths and modules, whether they are analog or digital. To me<br/>
> at least it makes sense to keep ITB and dedicated hardware somewhat<br/>
> separate. Call it Soft Synth DIY if you will :)<br/>
> Just my 2 c<br/>
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ok, so, 99% of people on SDIY are male, so does that mean things made by<br/>
women are not SDIY?<br/>
That's exactly where this kind of "lets define things" debate ends up<br/>
and that is not healthy.<br/>
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So, let's stop trying to define this list, let's enjoy it and embrace<br/>
the diversity!<br/>
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Paula<br/>
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