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Subject: Re: Modular Synth Layout Query

From: "Mike Marsh" <mmarsh@...>
Date: 2003-09-13

∗SIGH∗ There's that spelling thing again: 'little' not 'litle'

:(

BTW, this is healthy debate, right? Nobody is picking on nobody,
right? Thease are all opinions, right? If this is a flame, then I
apologize and bow out...

Mike

--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "Mike Marsh" <mmarsh@w...> wrote:
> Nice, neat little rows for nice neat litle music. Yummy. Nicely
> organized, no accidents! Neat! Maybe we should ask the IEEE to
> adjudicate the standard?
>
> Every guitarist can pick up the Strat copy that I built and
> play 'Stairway to Heaven' on it because it is standard. Every
> guitarist that I know (except one) picks up the 7 string flattop
> that I had made (spruce top Brazillian sides!) and can't play it.
> It's ∗MY∗ instrument, and I like it that way! It's my creative
edge.
>
> Knowing where your modules are: one dollar. Knowing how to use
> them: $10. Arranging them the way that works for you: priceless.
>
> Mike
>
> --- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "konkuro" <konkuro@a...> wrote:
> > Andrew wrote:
> >
> > >If it were about efficiency, we'd all follow Mitchell's law.<
> >
> > And well you should!
> >
> > After all, musical instruments (with the exception of the
> theremin)
> > are about efficiency. As in "...an implement used to
∗facilitate∗
> > work." (Cheap asterisk emphasis mine.)
> >
> > One can use modules any way they like, but one had better know
> where
> > they are. Really, it's like a filing cabinet.
> >
> > johnm