Re: Functional Density
2002-08-19 by paulhaneberg
My own personal philosophy is to get two of everything. If its something I really like or if its something I know is going to be especially useful then I might get more than two up front. It doesn't matter a lot to me whether each module contains a multitude of signal sources or functions. To me the more knobs and the more controllable parameters the better. For instance I wish the 450 would have an output jack for each filter section in addition to the summed output. This would probably put it into 4U and lower its functional density, but for me the usefulness would increase. BTW the multiphase waveform animator sounds like a great idea. I also like the idea of a modular sequencer with a lot of panel real estate i.e. the SuperMoe. The more parameters controllable, the more jacks, the more knobs, the greater number of permutations and combinations. Why two of everything? If it sounds good in mono it almost always sounds better in stereo and that means two duplicate patches (with a slight variation of course.) I'll have to ask Larry, but maybe thats the Hoosier school of synth design. The idea is not to maximize the density, but to maximize the number of variables.