<grumpy-old-man-level=11>halfpower wrote:Also computers and VSTs haven't been around all that long. A lot of the programming going on here is either cutting edge, or something fairly close to it.
The only thing that makes it "cutting edge" is being able to do it in real time on a $750 computer you bought at WalMart.
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Sorry. I keep having flashbacks about programming DSP algorithms on megabuck mil-spec array processors back when I was young, had hair, and 10MHz was considered "fast".
A studio full of synthesizers on your desktop may be a relatively new thing, but computers and the DSP algorithms that make up VSTs have been around for decades...that's centuries in "programmer years".