Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

--- In CZsynth@yahoogroups.com, "Summa" <flotorian@...> wrote:
>
> On 6 Oct 2008 at 8:58, zoinky420 wrote:
> 
> > --- In CZsynth@yahoogroups.com, "Summa" <flotorian@> wrote:
> > >
> > > I don't see a problem to tamper/pondering with and your 
arguments
> > > seemd pretty constructed to me, never occured to me in 
reality...
> > 
> > I can't tell if you're trying to say that my argument was well-
> > constructed, or contrived, meaning that it referred to a narrow, 
and
> > unlikely senario.  
> 
> Never occoured to me in almost 25 years and I have plenty of synth 
> here...
> 


Well it never occured to me in 15 years until recently mainly because 
I could not afford the hardware. Nowadays people are ditching all 
their old MIDI gear cheaply for all-in-the-box software studios.  
Personally, I don't understand the appeal of turning your studio into 
something that resembles an office.  Now that I can pick up all this 
old MIDI hardware cheaply, I have a gas chaining it all up and 
running wild.  I mean, I could mix all my audio with a mouse, too, 
but why use a control surface with faders instead, since that is far 
more enjoyable.  The other day I was adding up what all my gear would 
have cost 15 years ago (excluding computers that didn't exist then), 
and it came out to over $50,000.  To me that's pretty exciting, 
because I never could afford anything like that.  I've spent around 
$3000 over the past 15 years on music gear, and that represents most 
of my income over that period, minus food and shelter.  Anyway, I 
digress, but my point is that there are often many ways to solve a 
problem, and when doing so the two most important factors in my 
opinion are cost and enjoyment.  Often the most enjoyable solution is 
the most expensive, and often too expensive.  But when it isn't too 
expensive, I say opt for the most enjoyable solution!


> 
> Sounds as if you don't think that a good knowledge of the hardware 
> you use is in general helpfull ;) 
> It's not that I aked him to program his own soundset for the 
MC505 ;)
> 
>

Well if he chooses to add an external MIDI box to transpose  with 
he'll have added another piece of gear to figure out, with more 
options, thus increasing complexity of the overall system.  I really 
doubt anyone would choose a more complex solution because of being 
too lazy to employ an simpler solution.  The reason someone would 
choose a more complex solution would be due to an anticipation of 
greater productivity with the more complex solution, by utilizing 
processes that would not be available if the simpler solution to the 
original problem were employed.  Quantifying the benefit of something 
that hasn't been experienced is a dilemma the anaylsis of which is 
currently in vogue in certain circles.  This would be related to the 
decision analysis concept of known unknowns and unknown unknowns, so 
really what I'm saying here is that it would be better to buy MIDI 
gear than to invade Iraq, if you had to choose between the two.