p. hendricks, Analog sines can be perfect enough as proven by some of
the modules out now and in production, nothing more needs to be said.
All we need now is good 1v/oct for whatever modules are producing
those sines.

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:53 PM, p. hendricks < ph@... > wrote:
> On 12/1/08 11:23 AM, "Argitoth" < argitoth@... > wrote:
>
>> ... I don't understand why people can't accept the fact some of us
>> desire perfection.
>
> Duke Ellington: "If it sounds good, it IS good."
> perfect anything doesn't mean it sounds good, it just all will sound the
> same, plenty of great pre-amps out there, but classics are always quite
> colored like the the Neve. There are plenty of pre-amp with better specs
> than the neve for $100, but a Neve is still a $3000+ preamp.
>
> If you want perfect, that is software/digital the only reason analog still
> exists is because it often sounds better, why, the imperfections.
> Analog: tweaked until it sounds good
> Digital: tweaked until it looks good
>
> as for that sine, no one cared about that poor sine wave until about 10
> years ago. Many synths don't offer it, even Blacet wasn't going to include
> it on their VCO, until enough of us asked about it. So it probably is an
> after-thought on many modules especially on designs older than 5 years. The
> sine was really dead until microsound folks like Ryoji Ikeda started to
> exploit it. Still those "perfect" sterile waves were from test equipment or
> computers, as it took a mammoth $5000.00 test osc to produce such perfect
> sines for them or the computer which could easily do it. But without out
> even the subtle imperfections that analog will always exhibit and gives it
> it's uniqueness often "warmth."
>
> Since you're result is audio, I'd kinda think you you should base your
> direction and opinions on what sounds good to you.
> -p
>
>



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