Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: MOTM

Exactly. The right tool for the right job. I'm focusing on building a
hardware modular right now, but I have every other kind of synthesis
represented in some small way as well---FM, wavetable, samplers, etc. And
I'm a big fan of disk-based recording. I ∗love∗ my SAW software!! Wouldn't
want to live without it. So I'm not anti-PC (it's my profession after all),
and not anti-anti-modular. But I just loathe this juggernaut trend of
virtual EVERYTHING. The fact that MOTM exists, for me, is a sign of a sort
of backlash against this.

But this article is basically saying, "The time is here! Sell your gear!
Virtual is everything! I'm sold on it!"

It's crazy.

Believe me I have a little of everything in my studio. No matter how many
MOTM modules I add, it will still be a small percentage of what I use.
(Well, it may take up some decent floor space...). But I'm getting
increasingly irritated when I pick up every new issue of Keyboard or EM and
all I see is page after page of software synths. "Gee, looks like a Prophet
5, don't it?" Big deal! It's supposed to be a musical instrument! That
should _mean_ something. It is the physical interface between you and your
music. It should have character; it should have personality, feel like an
old friend. It should be cold on cold mornings and feel warm when... well,
when you've soldered that chip in backwards. ;)

Will we one day see guitarists throwing out their axes in favor of virtual
guitars? "Gee, sure looks like a stratocaster, don't it?" Sheesh!

I've been in "virtual" (read: email) contact with so many people who are
being reared on software modulars and think that they have the whole
'modular experience' down pat. No way! I keep telling them, "You haven't
lived until you've tried it the "old fashioned" way. Pick up that patchcord!


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I hope this list is not getting Anti-everything but Modular. : ) I find
a
mixture of Virtuals, old time jobs, modular, and yes..... software, make me
a
unique artist that I am. Diversity