Channel Muting

Yes, exactly. This is why I still draw on paper, too. Manipulating icons on a screen does not have the same appeal; I want to TOUCH the instrument. Playing a stringed instrument like a guitar, you are actually touching the thing that makes the sound, because the strings are your oscillators. This modular gear is as close as I can get to touching the electrical circuit that makes the sound. It's semi-mechanical and I feel like I can understand it (plus I can build my own circuits to interact with it.) With digital software its workings are more obscure, invisible, and beyond my ability to comprehend or manipulate. Also, analogue has a sound that affects one differently on a subconscious level. The waveforms are actual waves, not broken up into bits by digital sampling. .. of course by the time you hear it online, it has been digitized - but for me, I get to hear it directly from the source and there is something satisfying about it.

I'm curious. Why do you like more this whole setup, instead of the digital synthesizers we see today on computers? Is it just the feel of having something that you can handle with your hands rather than just a monitor rendition... or what? I see you've built stuff for yourself and while you showed us in previous videos those 2-channels and 6-channels muters... is it because of them? I mean: Is it because you can actually make this stuff with your own hands rather than just fiddling with something abstract such as programming?

Simone Spinozzi

I think you’re right – for demonstration purposes you’ve shown about all that you can. To take things further you’d have to drill down – here’s how to make Lifeforms sound like a pipe organ, here’s how to make Grids play Black Sabbath – and I don’t think you want to do that. Still, you could record yourself just experimenting, with or without commentary, and I’d probably watch it – for a few hours anyway. As an arm chair enthusiast I can’t justify buying this kind of kit for myself. I’d play with it for a couple of days, then it’d just gather dust. But I am fascinated with it. Maybe I should drop $50 on some emulation software or something. It’s not exactly the same, but it’d probably be pretty close.

benin81812