Modular tomfoolery

[Andrew Tarpinian]

On Jan 19, 2012, at 9:35 AM, Tony Scharf <noisetheorem at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> This happened to me as well.  Almost as quickly as I hooked up a MIDI
> keyboard to my modular, I decided it felt silly.  There was absolutely
> nothing special about playing arpeggiated bass sounds I could get just
> as easily from my PEK or Prophecy.
> 
> Not to get to philosophical, but modular synthesis has changed my
> perception of what is a musical 'event'.  When you play a keyboard,
> the events, or notes, are very rigid determined bunches of parameters
> changes which all occur together and 'note on'.  In a modular, that is
> not at all the case.  Amplitude, Spectrum and Pitch can all be defined
> and manipulated independent of one another so that a single sound can
> contain an entire musical structure in itself.  The patch itself
> becomes a fundamental part of the composition process.

watched the moog doc again the other week - they talk about the decision to add the keyboard and how it's pigeonholed synths ever since....  or on the other hand made them very popular.