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Re: [motm] Format Wars

2006-10-30 by Kenneth Elhardt

Paul S. writes:
>>I have equipment from Emagic, Korg, Yamaha,  tc, Lexicon, Eventide and
Roland. NONE of it looks the 'same', I didn't buy *any* of it because of
what it 'looked like'. I bought it because of what it does.  Yet, one of the
Many Lessons I have learned is the modular synths are somehow   *perceived*
differently. People, for whatever reasons, are 10X more passionate  about
the *physical appearance* of their modular. And these same people have 22
random guitar pedals lying on the floor.<<

But a modular is considered a single instrument and putting in modules that
are different sizes, colors, and styles doesn't look good in the same case,
nor will many of them even fit.  Imagine if 1/3 of a Jupiter-8 looked like a
Memorymoog, and another 1/3 looked like an OB-8.  Yikes.  With rack gear,
there is at least a 19" standard, so everything is the same size.  And
pedals on the floor just like rack gear, are separate individual devices,
not a single instrument.  That's at least how I see it.

-Elhardt

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