Re: [Nolug] Music meeting?

Vacuum tubes are terrible for making music actually. It takes about
30 minutes of warmup before a tube based oscillator can even play in
tune reliably. ;)

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> On 07/31/08 18:56, Chris Jones wrote:
>>
>> Joey had expressed interest in maybe having a music meeting soon... If
>> we do that, I definitely want to bring along my new toy. My modular
>> synth is coming along really nicely, it's almost a fully featured
>> "synthesizer" to where it will be fully playable. Any modules I add
>> from that point on will purely add to its timbre. This thing is
>> literally the linux of musical instruments. Rather than buying a
>> Roland, Yamaha, Korg, etc... this thing is like giving you the source
>> code to a synthesizer and you can wire it up however you want, to
>> achieve any type of sound imaginable. Not sure how many of you are
>> familiar with Moog synthesizers, especially the Minimoogs they make
>> nowadays. Well, this will be similar but far more flexible. The
>> original Moog synthesizers from the 60's were modular, and were truly
>> the first playable synthesizers ever made. That's what this is
>> modeled after. Should be fun. :) Here's some photo links below:
>>
>>
>> http://a889.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/64/l_703640d3ae07dcaae22f2064ac42f9b0.jpg
>>
>>
>> http://a602.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/52/l_0262d815fd52687e71a1a2beaee9ba49.jpg
>
> So... how many vacuum tubes in it? After all, it isn't "real" unless there
> are vacuum tubes. And vinyl. Can't forget vinyl...
>
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