From Haible Juergen Sent Mon, Feb 15th 1999, 11:04
From Haible Juergen Sent Mon, Feb 15th 1999, 11:04
xxxx.xxxxxx@xxxxx.xx wisely spoke: <<Very true. If there would be no limitations, it would not be a musical instrument. It would be.. everything. >> Elhardt replied: >That's not quite true. A modular synth allows unlimited patches and sounds. >The number of modules in it are limited only by how much you want to spend. >Virtually any sound you can and can't imagine is available. You could spend >many lifetimes but you would never be able to create all the sounds it's >capable of. It is because of that, that you don't have to compromise when >creating sounds. Once you go modular, it is hard to go back. I am finishing >up a multi-track recording I did using only my Doepfer modular (plus a couple >of effects). There are a bunch of sounds in it I won't be able to do on >prepatched synth. But when I had a sound in mind that I wanted to create, I >had no problem on the Deopfer because I wasn't restrained by limitations. Maybe the "good" thing of playing one specific modular is that it offers you such a lot ways to go that you won't miss the ones it doesn't offer. Which is perfectly fine as long as you're content with what you have. Not looking at what you don't have helps a lot. Limitations are not such a bad thing. Really. Some limitations are worse than others, though. JH.