Sorry -- I just find it tacky when words like 'fetishist' get thrown into the conversation. I've been *actively* performing and recording electronic music for more than 15 years, and while I may be new to analog synths in the larger scheme (like probably 95% of us), I'm not uninformed about electronic music. With my modular I want to make electronic music based on the systems which would be found in a modular from the 'classic period' of electronic music, i.e. 1960s-1970s. Yes, pioneers like Barry Vercoe and Denis Smalley used early computer technology, but for the most part, digital technology wasn't widely used in electronic instruments until the 1980s. I can't come even close to affording an original instrument from the time period of my interest, so -- like so many of us in this field -- I am building one from newly-built/-designed components.

I don't want computers in my modular. I've used tons of digital effects (you can't beat a long dead-clean digital delay), I record onto a computer. But for this ONE instrument, I want to constrain myself to a certain set of parameters which are -- to me -- *not* 'arbitrary'. And to try to make the best music I can within those limits.

--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com , "Mr julian" <jujulilianan@...> wrote:
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>
> Calm down, it's just a modular synth discussion on the internet. And I'm
> not sure you're even being judged.
>
> As florian already asked, we were interested to know more about what you
> consider your informed choices about not having digital modules.
>
> You're the one making the distinction, not others.
>
> It seems that "contains a microcontroller" Is your definition. Fair enough.
> There was a pretty good chance the 149 didn't have one of those, so it's
> interesting to know what your response would be if it was just shift
> register based, and it was mixing shift register bits with resistors to
> form voltages.
>
> ------- Original message -------
> > From: codotinc <doubleopards@...>
> > To: Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: 3.5.'12, 5:49
> >
> > It's my instrument to make my music through my set of informed decisions.
> >
> >
> > Everyone else, resume your squabbling over the ridiculousness of many
> > modular users' distinction between analog and digital.
> >
>