> I'm 100% positive that when the Cloud Generator is released
> (with all sorts of sound clips), many people will just shake
> their heads and go back to the 300>>440>>190 patch. This is
> because many folks are in the Wendy Carlos/ELP/Tomita/TD
> synth camp, and these modules don't "fit".
Yup. The synthesizer market is an odd one. On one hand people will ask for
something new and different, over and over again. On the other hand they'll
keep buying stuff that's modeled on 35-year-old Moog hardware, over and over
again. Examine the last 25 years of Keyboard magazine and you'll see that
the really innovative synthesizers were usually market failures, while the
successes were keyboards that accurately emulated earlier keyboards.
> This is certainly true in many cases (well, that and the
> unsympathetic wife/GF). I think this is true with MOTM, that
> banking my son's college tuition on selling more MOTM-101s
> is, as they say, 'a bad idea'.
Hey, you're the one that keeps insisting on referring to SynthTech as a
"hobby". ;-)
--Adam