coreline

what possess people to buy the same instruments owned by everyone else in the scene?. it escapes me. In this senario i refir to the ubiquious access virus, strip off the bells and wistles and it is exactally the same as just about evey digital modeling subtractive synthiser ever, . My little korg radias was a fraction of the price and has comparable and in some cases, superior features.

the precieved supremicy of Acces's flag ship and only synth (different flavours of the same chipset ascide) strikes me as the worst kind of superstision, ergo, superstision which costs money.

Though, saying that, two sculpters can create vastley different results from the same chissell.

But i have no faith that people actually use synths for anything other then locating a pleasing preset. Modern synths do not help this, as near 50% of the programming cycle involves 'reverse-engineering' the origional preset. At least the Radias ships with a bank of blank presets. This is my real beaf with the virus, i pride my self on my synth programming, modern synths with their instance on packing out evert byte of memory with a nightmare of fire and modulation, picking theese beastley sounds appart is like trying to unstich a pair of trowsers from milan, or take appart a fararri. its not rewarding work when at the end of it you are met with a shrill sinewave.

i think modern digital synthisis has become less about 'buying a tool' as buying a collection of finished works wraught by that tool.