MOTM

I think the other two major "things" you can't do (effecitvely) with analog
modulars are granular synthesis and additive synthesis.  Unless, of course,
you happen to have walls and walls (and walls!) of oscillators, EGs, and
VCAs.  Modern technology has made it easy to exploit these concepts, whereas
it was (and still is) practically impossible in the analogue domain.

I wouldn't mind a VC'ed sampler.  I had an idea for a VC'ed delay effect,
which clocked the loading and unloading of individual samples into RAM
(instead of a BBD) in the analogue domain, but I'm not technically savvy
enough to touch the design.  And I'm not sure how much you would have to
gain, save for the notion that you could get infinite echos without
resampling (which you would have to do with a BBD).  I'd love someone to
take up the challenge of such a design... (hint?)

I won't argue that analogue synthesis is used up or not-- I'm not in a
qualified place to state.  But I'd guess that there's plenty of room for
growth.  ;)

--PBr

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From: perpetual@... [mailto:perpetual@...]
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 1:44 PM
To: motm@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [motm] OT - Re: art of synthesis


but to address bleep's point about what you can and cannot do with 
modulars, i'd venture to say that there seems to be little one 
*cannot* do with modulars.  modern tech just makes it easier.  if 
there's something you can think of, please post.  it's certainly not 
off topic.

the one exception being samplers of course.  i'm still waiting for 
the day when a modular company sees fit to incorporate a REAL sampler 
module instead of this doepfer 8-bit shit.  people combined tape 
loops and synthesis, why not VC'ed samplers?