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xenogon

We live in an age of incredible numbers of things people have made yet there are loads of things I'd like to have or buy that don't exist and AFAICT never have.

Sadly most things people make are basically the same as some other thing someone made before.

I think of something that should exist but doesn't about twice a week at least.

Sometimes it's a whole new thing, sometimes its just an obvious (to me) tweak to an existing thing.

I have often thought it might be worth a whole mastodon account just tooting things that someone should make but no-one has.

Today's one is a Hammond Organ virtual instrument that supports microtuning. Preferably though MTS-ESP. I mean c'mon most synths do.

#vst#hammondOrgan#virtualInstrument
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"'Heroes'" is a song by the English musician #DavidBowie from his 12th studio album of the same name. Co-written by Bowie and #BrianEno and co-produced by Bowie and #TonyVisconti, the song was recorded in mid-1977 at #HansaStudio2 in #WestBerlin. The backing track was recorded fully before lyrics were written; Bowie and Eno added #synthesiser #overdubs while #RobertFripp contributed guitar. To record the vocal, Visconti devised a "multi-latch" system.
youtube.com/watch?v=GIKehChI__

YouTubedavid bowie - heroes (album version)By OWADC
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"'Heroes'" is a song by the English musician #DavidBowie from his 12th studio #album of the s#ame name. Co-written by Bowie and #BrianEno and co-produced by Bowie and #TonyVisconti, the song was recorded in mid-1977 at #HansaStudio2 in #WestBerlin. The b#acking track was recorded fully before lyrics were written; Bowie and Eno #added #synthesiser #overdubs while #RobertFripp contributed guitar. To record the vocal, Visconti devised a "multi-latch" system.
youtube.com/watch?v=pU9JAvZGaI

YouTubeDavid Bowie - Heroes (Live)By isolar7
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Ian K Tindale

@lardmotel I should also add that over the decades my music has become far far simpler, I don’t go into the depth in a synth that I used to when I were a nipper, and I appreciate being able to use a thing on an occasional weekend for half an hour and still being able to remember how to use enough of it next time I do that in a few months time

If I can’t get into an item of gear without taking several days off to read the manual (like a reviewer would, only there’s money in doing such a thing for them, whereas it’s the opposite for the buying public of that gear) then I just don’t get into it

When I was young, yes I would, now there’s more important things to invest time in

What I’m finding is that there’s gear that can maintain the periodic refresh-then-decay curve of keeping untransferrable knowledge of using a unique product arrangement, and there’s gear that simply can’t - each time I come back to it I’ve forgotten more than I knew last time and in the limited time I allocate to playing with it, it’s a retrograde experience whereby I know less and less about how to use it effectively than I did when I first bought it

Increasingly product designers of synths during the past decade or so are assuming incorrectly that we’ll all devote portions of our brain connections to sympathetically mapping all the stupid limited display hieroglyphs into the multiple-overloaded stacks of arbitrary functions on the limited amounts of knobs and buttons

I mean, ffs, the answer is to put a good big display in, with no crippling limitations, and put enough controls on so that you don’t have to make each one do ten things

And coming back to the SH-4d, I consider that the designers definitely tried solving that situation and were largely successful – I approve and that’s partly why I suspect that the SH-4d project was some sort of internal skunkworks project put together without marketing interference until it was ready

#synths #synth #synthesiser #synthesisers

Ian K Tindale

I have to say the Roland SH-4d is turning into a sleeper classic synth for me, almost all the rest of my synths I use when I first get them and then it starts to taper off and the depth never gets explored much and soon I’ve forgotten enough of a synth’s peculiarities to make it hard to know it deeply any more and only ever use it on the surface level thereafter

But while the SH-4d is initially deep, it seems to gets shallower the more time goes on to the point where more of it becomes obvious

Also I think I’ve had it with tiny synths that have a pathetic 4 digit seven segment display – I’m not interested in adding unnecessary guessing games and I really can’t figure out what most of the crippled stunted words are supposed to be on those stupid displays such as on the Korg NTS-1 or Roland J-6 / E-4, I can’t use them, it was even worse on the old Novation Circuit when that worked (it stopped working last year and is back in its box hidden in the attic) – I literally couldn’t tell what was going on with it at any given time, I rarely ended up using it

#synths #synth #synthesiser #synthesisers

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