Price is going down by the minute. New G5 introduced, etc, but I have yetto see anything exiting done today with a computer that couldn't be done10 years ago (regarding synthesis).
Yes yes, cheaper, more convenient, real-time etc. Oh and graphics.... (don'tget me started). But were is the frontier??? All the new pluggins we're seeingtoday is the harvest of 80s and early 90s research. Granular, convolutionwave guide. What happens next? What's the next big thing to happen in synthesis?The next big thing that today can only be done with a week of non real-timecompiling? As far as I can see, not a whole lot.
Sorry, just venting my frusration seeing all lap tops running Reason, addingto the growing pile of mediocre synth music.
Tobias
elhardt@... wrote:
To hear people talk about the wopping $2400-$2500 they spent on acomputer is
amusing. I spent $2400 just on 8Meg of memory for my Mac II, and that washalf
the price some vendors were selling it at during those memory shortage times.
This was the time when a 1024x768 24bit slow as a snail dumb framebuffer(no
graphics acceleration) graphics card listed for $4000, and how about a $3000
19" monitor to run it on. Today when I hear people complain about the priceof
a new Mac for instance, I just think to myself those ungrateful bastardshave
never had is so good and they don't even know it.
-Elhardt
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