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[Andrew Tarpinian]

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> On Jan 15, 2014, at 12:04 PM, Tony Hardie-Bick <tony at entity.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 15/01/14 16:17, Andrew Tarpinian wrote:
>> Well the factual stuff, analog synthesizer = subtractive synthesis?
>> "Producing instruments the old way"?   The tech and process that goes
>> into these modern instruments is light years ahead of what was going
>> on before.
> 
> the modern machines are a hats off tribute to the history of synthesis, much like
> piano making - there are many developments that make new things possible, but
> much of what sounds good is just the same as before, but with better signal-to-noise,
> lower power consumption, higher reliability (auto tuning with a microcontroller, for
> example, but using a classic oscillator design), and lower cost - and, basically,
> great design flexibility, lower up-front cost per unit manufacture, all leading to
> a complete change in the dynamics of what's economically (and by extension, musically)
> possible.

Exactly.