Software vs. Analog in 2025 – Has the Balance Shifted?

[vurt]

also a great track...

[stoopicus]

What exactly don't I know about?

I think this is where the thread reached Peak KVR

I just wanted to point out that IvyBirds is still waiting for an exhaustive answer to this question.

[ghettosynth]

What exactly don't I know about?

I think this is where the thread reached Peak KVR

I just wanted to point out that IvyBirds is still waiting for an exhaustive answer to this question.

I think that we want to get to 303 pages organically. Well, I think, but what do I know?

[stoopicus]

What exactly don't I know about?

I think this is where the thread reached Peak KVR

I just wanted to point out that IvyBirds is still waiting for an exhaustive answer to this question.

I think that we want to get to 303 pages organically. Well, I think, but what do I know?

If we get to 808, one user will likely 404. This is poetic.

[jancivil]

the deeply silly aspect of the whole thread (beyond that it's been done to death hundreds if not thousands of times on here) is the title is a pretense that a wholly subjective matter is objective: a balance shifting; even as there was supposedly a wide enough consensus on page 1 no less, here it is pg 105. There may be a balance for the person who wrote the title, but there must be one for everyone. I don't have a hardware synth. There is no balance to be had on a scale where one side has no weight.

If someone likes the sound a device makes, that's that. If someone likes the use cases of this type rather than the other, that's the end of that story really, isn't it? But nooooooo, one's preference has to be made more than that, with dumbass rhetoric like "In the real world" now. and "people are getting these for the sound" - as opposed to? Someone that thinks differently is not living 'in the real world', is it? People are not getting persuaded either way, if that's expected to be persuasive it's a fantasy of yours. Nothing personal, but get real.

[kritikon]

Only 1 deeply silly aspect to this thread?

I beg to differ...

[ghettosynth]

What exactly don't I know about?

I think this is where the thread reached Peak KVR

I just wanted to point out that IvyBirds is still waiting for an exhaustive answer to this question.

I think that we want to get to 303 pages organically. Well, I think, but what do I know?

If we get to 808, one user will likely 404. This is poetic.

Taking bets on how many septembers will pass before 909. Here's a challenge. Post your composition that celebrates the instrument relating to the number of pages when it hits that many pages. 202 is just around the corner, you don't have long!

[HAL76]

the deeply silly aspect of the whole thread (beyond that it's been done to death hundreds if not thousands of times on here) is the title is a pretense that a wholly subjective matter is objective: a balance shifting; even as there was supposedly a wide enough consensus on page 1 no less, here it is pg 105. There may be a balance for the person who wrote the title, but there must be one for everyone. I don't have a hardware synth. There is no balance to be had on a scale where one side has no weight.

If someone likes the sound a device makes, that's that. If someone likes the use cases of this type rather than the other, that's the end of that story really, isn't it? But nooooooo, one's preference has to be made more than that, with dumbass rhetoric like "In the real world" now. and "people are getting these for the sound" - as opposed to? Someone that thinks differently is not living 'in the real world', is it? People are not getting persuaded either way, if that's expected to be persuasive it's a fantasy of yours. Nothing personal, but get real.

Taste has always been a battlefield. Of culturtes, classes, subjects .. It´s a primary element of identification and distinction and probably always will be.

The problem is that these whimps claim to have cracked the honey pot

[pdxindy]

hardware. 2;10 on, but the whole tack is divine

[dionenoid]

Taking bets on how many septembers will pass before 909. Here's a challenge. Post your composition that celebrates the instrument relating to the number of pages when it hits that many pages. 202 is just around the corner, you don't have long!

We're on page 106. Just sayin'.

[solvni_music]

It is 2025 and my favorite synth is fabfilter One.does it sound analog ? ....I dont care.

[whassup]

hardware. 2;10 on, but the whole tack is divine

Interesting! Didn't know this track. Cool synths!
Thanx for posting this.

[HAL76]

More cowbell.

[zerocrossing]

And I was one of the first to get a Korg M1 despite everyone saying ewwww.... it's digital... and then it became one of the most popular synths. I have no problems with digital music.

In 1988 when the Korg M1 came out analogue was dead, everyone went digital, the Yamaha DX7 had pretty much killed analogue by 1985. No one wanted analogue, digital was all the rage for 15 years. In fact digital is still by far the main way of making music, only now its in a computer instead of a workstation or module.

I think it was MIDI that people were drawn to, with the availability of computers and sequencers. Nobody dumped analogue because of its sounds. Sure, the M1 and D50 etc offered different stock sounds, and the scene was changing as it does, but I really think it was MIDI, or lack of it, that convinced ppl to skip perfectly usable instruments

That's not correct, though MIDI was a selling point, for sure. There were plenty of analog synths with MIDI by '83. People wanted more affordable synthesizers with stable tuning, more voices, and a wider variety of sounds.

[zerocrossing]

A fella has to have some emergency HP!

Like for when you run out of ketchup?

I read is as he took too much damage and now his HP ran out and he's waiting to respawn.