hello all,
as it's sunday, and the list is traditionally quiet, here's a short synth moral:
i used to be really into synths, i also used to make noise with old signal generators etc - i thought i really knew about synths. then, (some years later) i decided to build a modular synth from kit to help my developing understanding of electronics - and because i woke up one morning feeling very mortal, and needed to fulfill my knobs, sockets & switches desire in at least this lifetime - to answer the poll sometime last week, i actually stumbled across MOTM while searching for MOTU technical support (the web can be a funny old place sometimes)
anyway, all the bits turned up for my first installment, and after that silent "WHAT HAVE I DONE !?" scream, i got stuck in. around six months later, i actually know how a synth REALLY works now. i can get stuff out of my Korg MS10 i never thought possible, i now curse my Yamaha CS5 for having absolutely no patch capability (i just love the S&H on my CS5). i have an old Maplin 3800 that i found in a skip, keyboard in bits. i butchered it, put it in a new case, and used it only a handfull of times over the last three years. but you see, now i know about synths, i know what each knob is actually supposed to do, and which one is likely nackered (around 30% of them)
my modular is still at work this weekend, so i filled up half a dat with MS10, CS5 & 3800 ramblings for sampling later on. now i know how to work the 3800, it's like a gigantic (imagine 1 row x 16u of MOTM) sherman filter bank only with a squelchier filter - yummy
anyway, the moral is in there somewhere, along with some kind of satori moment...
cheers
paul b