MOTM

--- In motm@y..., "mmarsh100" <mmarsh@s...> wrote:
> <I don't get this thread.  What's hard about the MOTM interface?
> 
> I can see where folks may have trouble with synthesis in general, 
> but no modular interface is going to help with that.  I know Stooge 
> Larry, for example, sometimes voices confusion about programming a 
> modular, but I don't think that's because the MOTM user interface 
is 
> difficult.>
>  
> Mike
> 
> > --- In motm@y..., "Tony Allgood" <oakley@t...> wrote:
> >I really feel like I'm whistling in the dark here when I see 
> the 
> > latest
> > modules with switches that allow the choice between "V" and "R" 
> > or "L"
> > and "E".
> > 
> > While this may be true for many people, it must have also been 
> true 
> > when
> > musicians first saw a module labelled A, D, S, R. Like any 
> musical
> > instrument, there must be things to learn. And there is a 
school 
> of
> > thought that says the harder it is to learn the more creative 
> you 
> will<
> become.
>  
> Tony
>  
> This has nothing to do with the Minimoog vs. MOTM topic BTW.
> I don't know the expression "whistling in the dark", I just want 
> to 
> comment on the aspect of creativity mentioned above. I definitely 
> have to disagree on that one, Tony. It might be that you mean 
> that "difficult" things will tempt a user to be more resourceful 
> but 
> that is not the same as being creative. Ofcourse it is true that 
> there must be things to be learned. And ofcourse can new things 
> make 
> ones creativity richer. Making things (e.g. interfaces) hard to 
> understand or to learn however will stand in the way of the 
> creative 
> proces. In stead of having your creativity do the work, one will 
> be 
> too busy figuring out how the damn thing works. Creative people 
> will 
> therefore often walk away from hard to use interfaces. 
> 
> No offence Tony, I just had to answer.
>  
> Michel Havenith


Before this thread goes somewhere I didn't intend it to go: It wasn't 
my intention to comment on the MOTM interface and there's nothing 
wrong with it (on the contrary :) ).

Michel Havenith