SergeModular

--- In SergeModular@y..., John Papiewski <johnp@w...> wrote:

> Mike & All
>
> Well, yeah, that idea's been bouncing around for a while... it'd be

fun to do

> a modern release.
> Did I miss it? Is/was there a project to do a SMOG group thing?
>
> If you look at the link on the previous message, it refers to a set

of

> cassettes that Serge folks did in the early 80's (?).
> I would like to see what was done there ... it looks like a variety

of

> Serge-related stuff done independently & edited together to

demonstrate what

> Serges could do. I think I saw something in there about a demo tape

that

> covered the various modules one by one, with narration.
>
> JP
>

Ah yes, I should have read it more carefully. I had noticed
that link before and briefly took a look and the PDFs documenting
the tapes.

I think I agree with Rex on the subject of a "module demonstration"
tape/CD/MP3. I guess it might be interesting to have a demo of some
of the more esoteric sound modules (the Wave Multiplier and the
Triple Wave Shaper come to mind) but I think an exhaustive demo of
each module doesn't do anyone any good (I don't believe you can get
an idea of what one of the filters can do by having short sound demos
for example). Plus it might lock people into expecting (or producing)
a specific function from a module and sort of psychologically cut
them off from using different (personal and unique) approaches to
using it.

On the other hand, I do like example patches in books like the
"Gold" book (I would have been pretty lost without the patches
demo-ing the Smooth and Stepped Function Generator in that book).


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