SynthModules

> ==> As one of the recent "computer bashers" on AH, I would 
say there is
> a huge difference between the PSIM computer use and the 
"softsynth -
> sequencing - sampling - recording" computer use that I have 
banned from
> my studio ;)

The difference in philosophy is the elimination of the physicality 
of the music process. Rex and I have a joke, no spit valves in the 
future of music. The down and dirty physicality of music, the 
smell, sight and taste aspects of it, are what are under attack. 
And what softsynths will try to eliminate.

If you turn music making into twiddling a 1/1000" thick layer of 
photons on a screen, it becomes a purely intellectual exercise. 
And sounds like it. Music as Chess.

Take advantage of this opportunity to buy cheap hardware. It is 
just like the early 80's where everybody dumped their Buchla's 
for TX-816s. Then MIDI was going to do everything, now it is 
Plugins that are going to do everything. Wrong again.

History doesn't just repeat itself, it stutters...