The real reasons why analog synths are superior to softsynths

[Uncle E]

10. They even smell better, especially when they get hot.

I once accidentally plugged a 120V laptop power supply into a Waldorf Microwave XT. It immediately began smoking and smelling like melted plastic. If it were analog, it would have smelled like fresh roses and warm chocolate brownies.

[trimph1]

Yep, just checked.
Still prefer missionary.

I'm stuck in these damn MIDI port... All I wanted to do is trying something different...

But not THAT different...I hope

[Flandersh]

To me, the magic with analog signals is that they are actual, physical waves passing through time and space. Computers, yea, sure there's signals of some sorts (voltages, currents, etc), but they aren't actual waves of the sounds, but the CPU crunching commands.

And it is more to it... the analog sound is continuous. In the same way as our experience of time is continuous wherease the clocktime is divided into discrete entinities and not able to catch up on our experience of different speeds of time. The differences between digital and analog may be subtle when perceived, but the facts behind may be our key to reality.

Planck length. I think if the universe turns out to be essentially digital in nature it'll be the ultimate troll for analog purists.

I mean, I totally get what you're saying with the time and space thing, it's just I think the simulations of a wave travelling in time and space on a computer are good enough now that I can't hear the difference.

Only analog is the real experience to me. Digital is as language, logic, mathematics, politics and so on good way to structure the experience into meaningfull entinities, but never reality.

[vurt]

Yep, just checked.
Still prefer missionary.

I'm stuck in these damn MIDI port... All I wanted to do is trying something different...

do you own a toaster?

[stonestreet]

To me, the magic with analog signals is that they are actual, physical waves passing through time and space. Computers, yea, sure there's signals of some sorts (voltages, currents, etc), but they aren't actual waves of the sounds, but the CPU crunching commands.

And it is more to it... the analog sound is continuous. In the same way as our experience of time is continuous wherease the clocktime is divided into discrete entinities and not able to catch up on our experience of different speeds of time. The differences between digital and analog may be subtle when perceived, but the facts behind may be our key to reality.

Planck length. I think if the universe turns out to be essentially digital in nature it'll be the ultimate troll for analog purists.

I mean, I totally get what you're saying with the time and space thing, it's just I think the simulations of a wave travelling in time and space on a computer are good enough now that I can't hear the difference.

Only analog is the real experience to me. Digital is as language, logic, mathematics, politics and so on good way to structure the experience into meaningfull entinities, but never reality.

I have heard that our neurons either fire or they do not. Apparently they fire at the same amplitude but at different frequencies for different stimulus intensities. To me that makes us more DX7 than Memorymoog.

I once saw the equation REALITY=COMMUNITY and I have been trying to understand this ever since.

Have fun

[Flandersh]

I have heard that our neurons either fire or they do not. Apparently they fire at the same amplitude but at different frequencies for different stimulus intensities. To me that makes us more DX7 than Memorymoog.

I once saw the equation REALITY=COMMUNITY and I have been trying to understand this ever since.

Have fun

That make sense when the fact is that neuroscience in itself is more of a DX7 science than a memorymoog science; a physicalism (the belief that all thing can be reduced to atoms, superstrings etc.). But when seen from the perspective of non-physicalistic monism and dualism the neuroscience in itself does not need to say anything and in this regard it makes us more analog.

The equation reality=community may alludes to postmodern perspectives like Habermas "I speak with thee, therefore I am". This is in contrast with both physicialism and other modern non-physicalistic perspectives that place a faith in an independent reality.

[IncarnateX]

Habermas "I speak with thee, therefore I am".

Considering all the trouble Habermas have had with postmodernists I really think you would hurt him deeply by calling him that. You would hurt the postmodernists even more....but that is okay it me

Actually it is the postmodernist Kenneth Gergen that have rewritten the Cartesian dictum to "we communicate, therefore we are". Quite litterally.

[Flandersh]

Habermas "I speak with thee, therefore I am".

Considering all the trouble Habermas have had with postmodernists I really think you would hurt him deeply by calling him that. You would hurt the postmodernists even more....but that is okay it me

Actually it is the postmodernist Kenneth Gergen that have rewritten the Cartesian dictum to "we communicate, therefore we are". Quite litterally.

I have not named him a postmodernist. I talked about the postmodern perspectives that arise as a result of the positivism dispute.

[trimph1]

Yep, just checked.
Still prefer missionary.

I'm stuck in these damn MIDI port... All I wanted to do is trying something different...

do you own a toaster?

Ummm....

[CableChannel]

Okelidokeli

[damoog]

But analog gear makes girls think you're really old. Old and boring.

WHAT?!...girls don't even know what analog is?.....maybe anal though

[Igro]

But analog gear makes girls think you're really old. Old and boring.

Absolutely, but software makes girls think you're really nerdy. Nerdy and boring.

Being a keyboard player in general makes girls think you're really old, really nerdy, and really boring.

Then change the girl, rather than gear.

[ontol]

[osiris]

THAT's some real analog, baby!

[Igro]