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Subject: Re: [motm] Format Wars

From: "Kenneth Elhardt" <elhardt@...>
Date: 2006-10-30

Paul S. writes:
>>I have equipment from Emagic, Korg, Yamaha, tc, Lexicon, Eventide and
Roland. NONE of it looks the 'same', I didn't buy ∗any∗ of it because of
what it 'looked like'. I bought it because of what it does. Yet, one of the
Many Lessons I have learned is the modular synths are somehow ∗perceived∗
differently. People, for whatever reasons, are 10X more passionate about
the ∗physical appearance∗ of their modular. And these same people have 22
random guitar pedals lying on the floor.<<

But a modular is considered a single instrument and putting in modules that
are different sizes, colors, and styles doesn't look good in the same case,
nor will many of them even fit. Imagine if 1/3 of a Jupiter-8 looked like a
Memorymoog, and another 1/3 looked like an OB-8. Yikes. With rack gear,
there is at least a 19" standard, so everything is the same size. And
pedals on the floor just like rack gear, are separate individual devices,
not a single instrument. That's at least how I see it.

-Elhardt