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Re: [microsound] Hardware setup



mik thinks;

> there are plenty of other mailing lists and online
> discussions pertaining to this topic, and most of us count on this list to
> spare us from hardware issues.

I disagree, though I took my reply to David off list. Admittedly most
typical microsound techniques are primarily computer music techniques, next
to impossible to implement on hardware (just for kicks I´m taking
"micorsound techniques" to mean those described in Road´s book) but there
are some exceptions. I had some amount of success implementing a version of
pulse train synthesis on a Serge Modular which alowed me to controll one
fundamental with a keyboard, the other with a light sensor.

Though the technique may at it´s core be the same, I asure you manually
controling it gives it a different feel from programing it all and a Serge
recorded to tape sounds quite different from, say, Csound rendered to hd. I
strongly feel that arteficially limiting ourselves to just computer based
systems is counterproductive. Admittedly there would be better places to
compare the feel of different stage pianos or the batery life of guitar
pedals but "outlawing" all talk of hardware in general is a step too far for
my tastes.

Respectfully yours.
Kas.



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