Future of Synthesizers

[izonin]

You might as well ask about the future of music.

We all know the future of music. Boys and girls in their teens and early twenties singing about love and heartbreak.

I'm more interested in the future of subtractive synthesis from a technological point of view. Is there still room for improvement, or have we reached perfection?

[Tj Shredder]

The more advanced, the less important are the differences. There ain’t no such thing as the perfect subtractive synthesis, but its most likely not worth the effort to add a tiny bit of enhancement to it... Its covered since a long time, and the die hard analog evangelists will never accept VA over analog electronics anyway ever...
I long for new stuff, subtractive is the oldest of the methods...

[vurt]

You might as well ask about the future of music.

We all know the future of music. Boys and girls in their teens and early twenties singing about love and heartbreak.

thats the present.
the future is robots singing victory songs after destroying the meatbags

[Forgotten]

[vurt]

see zoidberg?


thats you that is.

[e-crooner]

You might as well ask about the future of music.

We all know the future of music. Boys and girls in their teens and early twenties singing about love and heartbreak.

I'm more interested in the future of subtractive synthesis from a technological point of view. Is there still room for improvement, or have we reached perfection?

My point is that the future of synthesizers is tied to EDM most of all. There are only a few genres where synthesizers play the leading, or even only, role. Those genres are also the ones pushing the envelope.
Most genres such as Rock, Pop, Jazz, World etc. however are content with much more basic synths, some do without any synths.

[Tj Shredder]

You forgot that Karl-Heinz Stockhausen invented electronic music (only from his own perspective though). This is as far away as it can be from EDM. There is more than dance music, and a lot of innovation is almost completely coming from contemporary music sources like IRCAM or CNMAT...
Commercial music and markets make more money repeating the same old song over and over again...(VA for example...)
EDM only pushed the quality, not so much innovation, though all jump on new developments as soon they arrive... (Granular for example)

[Jace-BeOS]

More games will appear in plugin synths. We already saw some in Cyclop, Avenger and Phase Plant.

you will have to complete levels to access features

Korg iDS-10 on iOS already has game-like “accomplishments” to reveal things like colored cables in the semi-modular section...

[Jace-BeOS]

Synthesizers that only work with the application of bodily fluids

https://www.engadget.com/2020/01/17/Rai ... itar-namm/

[vurt]

More games will appear in plugin synths. We already saw some in Cyclop, Avenger and Phase Plant.

you will have to complete levels to access features

Korg iDS-10 on iOS already has game-like “accomplishments” to reveal things like colored cables in the semi-modular section...

its the beginnings of the ends of all things
sounds fun though

[vurt]

Synthesizers that only work with the application of bodily fluids

https://www.engadget.com/2020/01/17/Rai ... itar-namm/

still only a pedal.

read on...

[Krakatau]

You forgot that Karl-Heinz Stockhausen invented electronic music (only from his own perspective though). This is as far away as it can be from EDM. There is more than dance music, and a lot of innovation is almost completely coming from contemporary music sources like IRCAM or CNMAT...
Commercial music and markets make more money repeating the same old song over and over again...(VA for example...)
EDM only pushed the quality, not so much innovation, though all jump on new developments as soon they arrive... (Granular for example)

+1
I strongly agree

[vurt]

You might as well ask about the future of music.

We all know the future of music. Boys and girls in their teens and early twenties singing about love and heartbreak.

I'm more interested in the future of subtractive synthesis from a technological point of view. Is there still room for improvement, or have we reached perfection?

My point is that the future of synthesizers is tied to EDM most of all. There are only a few genres where synthesizers play the leading, or even only, role. Those genres are also the ones pushing the envelope.
Most genres such as Rock, Pop, Jazz, World etc. however are content with much more basic synths, some do without any synths.

due to a massive cme in 2034 frying the worlds power grids and electronics.
edm will forthwith be known as adm (acoustic dance music). funk will revert to folk and rock will be played on rocks.

sad times ahead

[e-crooner]

You forgot that Karl-Heinz Stockhausen invented electronic music (only from his own perspective though). This is as far away as it can be from EDM. There is more than dance music, and a lot of innovation is almost completely coming from contemporary music sources like IRCAM or CNMAT...
Commercial music and markets make more money repeating the same old song over and over again...(VA for example...)
EDM only pushed the quality, not so much innovation, though all jump on new developments as soon they arrive... (Granular for example)

What is innovated at those institutes will hardly make it into the mainstream.

[vurt]

You forgot that Karl-Heinz Stockhausen invented electronic music (only from his own perspective though). This is as far away as it can be from EDM. There is more than dance music, and a lot of innovation is almost completely coming from contemporary music sources like IRCAM or CNMAT...
Commercial music and markets make more money repeating the same old song over and over again...(VA for example...)
EDM only pushed the quality, not so much innovation, though all jump on new developments as soon they arrive... (Granular for example)

What is innovated at those institutes will hardly make it into the mainstream.

thats where the experimental stuff happens, which is then picked up by the mainstream.
the mainateam is actually very rigid, until someone dares to break the mould.
then everyone does that.
no innovation really.

its always been that way, fringe cultures are then adopted by the mainstream
which is why you had such accusations as "sell out" going around.