<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><div><br></div><div><div>Sent from my iPhone</div>On Jan 20, 2015, at 8:24 PM, K9 Kai Niggemann <<a href="mailto:kai@kainiggemann.com">kai@kainiggemann.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><br><div><div>On 20.01.2015, at 23:16, Andrew Tarpinian <<a href="mailto:andrewtarpinian@gmail.com">andrewtarpinian@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;">and/or a Mutable Braids</span></blockquote></div><br><div>I think Mutable modules are the devil. They are *so much* like using presets. To me that goes totally against the idea of using a modular... Well, maybe "clouds". Well. Maybe a umpteenth case with all digital modules, analogically controlled? ;-)</div></div></blockquote><br><div>You know, I was thinking this too. I was looking closer at braids and was thinking isn't this kind of like cheating?</div><div><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Sound source… like an oscillator? Not really.</span></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Most of the timbres it generates are so complex that approaching them with a classic analog modular setup would require a full case of oscillators, filters, VCAs, waveshapers and ring-modulators – that’s why we call it a <i style="max-width: 100%;">macro-oscillator</i> – "</span></p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; max-width: 100%;">So in other words, it takes all the fun out of it... :)</p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; max-width: 100%;">I mean it sounds great and peoples universal praise made me think it was complex and deep, despite seeming presety on the surface. (That other one with the internal drum sounds, I didn't get the point of that)</p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; max-width: 100%;">I thought Clouds looked interesting as well. Was thinking of getting Frames to add some more vca's.</p><p style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; max-width: 100%;">I really want to add a digital sound source to expand, the Shapeshifter seems to give me maximum bang for buck/space. </p></div></div></body></html>