An OPL3 can be quite cool

[Jay Vaughan]

> http://diodemilliampere.bandcamp.com/album/ymf262

Yeah, that’s the thing - so many synthesiser technologies are, for the most part, completely under-utilised - because: THE USER INTERFACE.

If the Virus, for example, had a knob for every parameter, you’d no longer be able to recognise its factory presets in all the pop songs.  But because its got a user interface like a Microwave oven, it takes *years* for people to dig beneath the surface and explore its depths.

Same with the OPL tech.  And SID, and so on.  Look at the amazing results that occurred when people started taking these chips away from their POKE-based lives, and put knobs on ‘em!

j.