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charlesosthelder writes:
>>When people call a particular module "boring", they aren't playing with it hard enough! Yes, a subharmonic generator can be rather dull, but what if you do THIS...<<
If you run a hardsync'd sound source into it, you can get hardsync'd squarewaves out of it. That's one way to get around nothing but boring squarewaves. I used that module to divide down kybd gates to alternate between two sounds. Run noise into it and you can get a goofy computer archade game type noise sound out of it. But in general it is still a boring module. Imagine a subharmonic generator that wasn't limited to square waves, nor limited to octaves below the incoming tone. Imagine it could output any waveform and at any interval above or below, plus a bunch of other things I don't want to mention. I've already got something like that working.
Paul Haneberg writes:
>>I'd like to learn not just how he synthesizes, but I'd also like to learn how he decides how to synthesize.<<
It involves biorhythm charts, pyramid power, and Jim Ignatowsky's discovery of dynamic perfection. It's all very confusing.
>>My long term goal is to produce albums of synthesized music. The type of synthesis that I am interested in is the antithesis of techno or industrial type music. I am not particularly interested in rhythm. I love sounds that are pleasing to the ear, or to put it another way are aesthetic.<<
This is what I like to hear about. Sometimes I wish I could find enough people so that each person could contribute a couple of pieces for an all analog synth CD of actual music that was meant to be listened to, not random aleatoric stuff (bug music). Hell, it might even be fun to do synth versions of music that's already out there too. The Moog Cookbook guys did it, but their's is so simplistic and cheesy sounding. I'd like to see something of quality. It could be called "The Vintage Synth Vol. 1" and so on as new ones are released.
>>There have been a lot of recent studies that seem to indicate that music is hardwired into the brain.<<
Unfortunately if not exposed to decent music at an early age, connections don't form properly. That leads to people being fascinated by the most basic and repetitive sounds and being musically stunted. That's what would make it hard to tap into all people even if "music" is hardwired into the brain.
>>There have, for instance, been studies that show that music causes activity in the emotional centers of the brain in newborns. This is somewhat perplexing, because it would seem to indicate that there is a survival benefit attached to having an emotional response to music, (or else why would we have evolved it?)<<
Art or laughter don't benefit survival either. Evolution is a mostly a fraud, and many are moving away from it.
-Elhardt
"a superior intelligence has guided the development of man in a definiate direction" - Alfred Wallace, Darwin's coauthor and simultaneous inventor of evolution by natural selection.