a synth moral..?
2000-06-18 by mr sikorsky
hello all,
as it's sunday, and the list is traditionally
quiet, here's a short synth moral:
i used to be really into synths, i also used to
make noise with old signal generators etc - i thought i really knew about
synths. then, (some years later) i decided to
build a modular synth from kit to help my developing understanding of
electronics - and because i woke up one morning feeling very mortal, and needed
to fulfill my knobs, sockets & switches desire in at least this lifetime -
to answer the poll sometime last week, i actually stumbled across MOTM while
searching for MOTU technical support (the web can be a funny old place
sometimes)
anyway, all the bits turned up for my first
installment, and after that silent "WHAT HAVE I DONE !?" scream, i got stuck
in. around six months later, i actually know how
a synth REALLY works now. i can get stuff out of my Korg MS10 i never
thought possible, i now curse my Yamaha CS5 for having absolutely no patch
capability (i just love the S&H on my CS5). i have an old Maplin 3800 that i
found in a skip, keyboard in bits. i butchered it, put it in a new case, and
used it only a handfull of times over the last three years. but you
see, now i know about synths, i know what each knob is actually supposed to do,
and which one is likely nackered (around 30% of them)
my modular is still at work this weekend, so i
filled up half a dat with MS10, CS5 & 3800 ramblings for sampling later on.
now i know how to work the 3800, it's like a gigantic (imagine 1 row x 16u of
MOTM) sherman filter bank only with a squelchier filter - yummy
anyway, the moral is in there somewhere, along with
some kind of satori moment...
cheers
paul b