18-01-2015, 03:38 AM
Cool!! Thanks!! I'll have a butchers later tonight!
I've always liked the synth. I see it as a device/musical instrument, that lets you create a never-ending horizon of sounds you could NEVER get before without being Delia Derbyshire!! Something you could be very creative with and come up with VERY interesting sounds. Sad, how some see it as an abomination to the musical world and call it, "plastic music". They just don't understand what it's all about and never venture into the past far enough to realize that the electric guitar was only just invented about 65 to 75 years ago!! The electric bass is even younger!! Let ALONE the fact that a mere few hundred years ago there were also no such things as violins, drums (per se) and wind instruments (outside of a stick of wood carved into a flute).
One sad thing about the synth today is that most of them (from what I can recall) don't even allow much in the way of creativity, you just push a button or two to tell the synth what preset patch you want it to play and it does it!! Except for a very short use of the Buchla synthesizer back in the late `80's, I've never had the experience of putting wires together to physically create my own sounds, but at least I've had the chance to move numerous buttons, knobs and sliders to create my own sounds! At least three of the synths I have now allow me to create, or at LEAST change, the sounds already onboard.
One of my first excursions into the Mini-Moog back in the early `70's allowed me to, SOMEHOW, create a REALLY interesting sound that warbled all over the place in random fashion, NEVER to be played the same way twice, and took a good minute or so for it to play a single key stroke!! How I did it, I haven't a clue!! I tried to do it again later and failed miserably!! I even wrote down the patch I created and still couldn't copy it!
I've always liked the synth. I see it as a device/musical instrument, that lets you create a never-ending horizon of sounds you could NEVER get before without being Delia Derbyshire!! Something you could be very creative with and come up with VERY interesting sounds. Sad, how some see it as an abomination to the musical world and call it, "plastic music". They just don't understand what it's all about and never venture into the past far enough to realize that the electric guitar was only just invented about 65 to 75 years ago!! The electric bass is even younger!! Let ALONE the fact that a mere few hundred years ago there were also no such things as violins, drums (per se) and wind instruments (outside of a stick of wood carved into a flute).
One sad thing about the synth today is that most of them (from what I can recall) don't even allow much in the way of creativity, you just push a button or two to tell the synth what preset patch you want it to play and it does it!! Except for a very short use of the Buchla synthesizer back in the late `80's, I've never had the experience of putting wires together to physically create my own sounds, but at least I've had the chance to move numerous buttons, knobs and sliders to create my own sounds! At least three of the synths I have now allow me to create, or at LEAST change, the sounds already onboard.
One of my first excursions into the Mini-Moog back in the early `70's allowed me to, SOMEHOW, create a REALLY interesting sound that warbled all over the place in random fashion, NEVER to be played the same way twice, and took a good minute or so for it to play a single key stroke!! How I did it, I haven't a clue!! I tried to do it again later and failed miserably!! I even wrote down the patch I created and still couldn't copy it!