--- In motm@y..., "mmarsh100" <mmarsh@s...> wrote:
> <I don't get this thread. What's hard about the MOTM interface?
>
> I can see where folks may have trouble with synthesis in general,
> but no modular interface is going to help with that. I know Stooge
> Larry, for example, sometimes voices confusion about programming a
> modular, but I don't think that's because the MOTM user interface
is
> difficult.>
>
> Mike
>
> > --- In motm@y..., "Tony Allgood" <oakley@t...> wrote:
> >I really feel like I'm whistling in the dark here when I see
> the
> > latest
> > modules with switches that allow the choice between "V" and "R"
> > or "L"
> > and "E".
> >
> > While this may be true for many people, it must have also been
> true
> > when
> > musicians first saw a module labelled A, D, S, R. Like any
> musical
> > instrument, there must be things to learn. And there is a
school
> of
> > thought that says the harder it is to learn the more creative
> you
> will<
> become.
>
> Tony
>
> This has nothing to do with the Minimoog vs. MOTM topic BTW.
> I don't know the expression "whistling in the dark", I just want
> to
> comment on the aspect of creativity mentioned above. I definitely
> have to disagree on that one, Tony. It might be that you mean
> that "difficult" things will tempt a user to be more resourceful
> but
> that is not the same as being creative. Ofcourse it is true that
> there must be things to be learned. And ofcourse can new things
> make
> ones creativity richer. Making things (e.g. interfaces) hard to
> understand or to learn however will stand in the way of the
> creative
> proces. In stead of having your creativity do the work, one will
> be
> too busy figuring out how the damn thing works. Creative people
> will
> therefore often walk away from hard to use interfaces.
>
> No offence Tony, I just had to answer.
>
> Michel Havenith
Before this thread goes somewhere I didn't intend it to go: It wasn't
my intention to comment on the MOTM interface and there's nothing
wrong with it (on the contrary :) ).
Michel Havenith