MOTM

Price is  going down by the minute. New G5 introduced, etc, but I have 
yet to see anything exiting done today with a computer that couldn't be 
done 10 years ago (regarding synthesis).
Yes yes, cheaper, more convenient, real-time etc. Oh and graphics.... 
(don't get me started). But were is the frontier??? All the new pluggins 
we're seeing today is the harvest of 80s and early 90s research. 
Granular, convolution wave guide. What happens next? What's the next big 
thing to happen in synthesis? The next big thing that today can only be 
done with a week of non real-time compiling? As far as I can see, not a 
whole lot.

Sorry, just venting my frusration seeing all lap tops running Reason, 
adding to the growing pile of mediocre synth music.

Tobias




elhardt@... wrote:

> To hear people talk about the wopping $2400-$2500 they spent on a 
> computer is
> amusing. I spent $2400 just on 8Meg of memory for my Mac II, and that 
> was half
> the price some vendors were selling it at during those memory shortage 
> times.
> This was the time when a 1024x768 24bit slow as a snail dumb 
> framebuffer (no
> graphics acceleration) graphics card listed for $4000, and how about a 
> $3000
> 19" monitor to run it on. Today when I hear people complain about the 
> price of
> a new Mac for instance, I just think to myself those ungrateful 
> bastards have
> never had is so good and they don't even know it.
>
> -Elhardt
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