pita, fennesz. . . Patches in general

[A Listener <a_listener23@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry to have this happen so late (I get the digest version), but:

Toadying(?) (I assume as in putting down) I was not I just wanted a
discussion. . .  (but I seem to have just upset people). . .

And my feeling is not that the music is not "good," (I lost some respect for
him, but I'm still listening to HP and +/-, and I'll probably buy "Endless
Summer" when it comes out. . .) it's just that there is no credit. . . and
no indication of where the work went, and was done by who. . . .

The guitar analogy is a little week. . . We can understand the skill of a
guitar player, because we know what a guitar sounds like. . . (I think)
we've all even strummed its strings (at least once). We can recognize a
guitar and know how it sounds in the hands of a bad player and a good
player, because a guitar is universal. . .

A Max patch however is not. . . by no means. . . You can have patches that
borderline play themselves, or far more involved processes, but the patch is
still much more than a simple "instrument" (or brush. . .), because of how
much hart and soul is already in the patch (I play both sides here, I both
play and write my own patches. . . and all though you can sound bad playing
them if you don't know what your doing it still sounds like me (just not
doing so well)). .. .

I also believe that there is an importance in knowledge of what your
actually doing that does not come from playing someone else's patches. . .
That you may know how to get close to the sound that you want, but I think
you need to know where that sound is coming from (how its made).

Well, I hope to here from both sides this time. . .

Thanks,
Vance