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[Friday's Child]

Hi Sebastian,

Sebastian Berweck wrote:
> Micros are sweet and I wish I had one.

> (I have a G2) (No, please don't...
> don't kill me... aaaargh.. [keys turn as red as the rest of the thing])
>   
I remember Sebastian.
Such a NICE fellow.
Shame about his early death.

> I do explore sounds, but it wouldn't be anything new here.
You'd be surprised what what was considered new. To some people, new is 
anything they've not come across before.
But ... new and interesting are not always the same, either.
>  I would think
> anybody who doesn't care to explore sounds wouldn't want to deal with a
> modular, though.
>   
That's kind of what I mean. One can 'explore' sounds, in my view, by 
just marching through a bank of patches, which you can do on any synth.
But when you're really "interested", the Nord is great. That's when it 
comes into its own.
Because ... suddenly you can begin to appreciate that maybe you can 
"see" what is necessary to create that sound. And ... it's also 
immediately accessible.

Of course, if it's a patch by Rob Hordijk or Jim Clark or Dave Peck or 
Jan Punter or some divinity like that, you don't have much chance of 
actually UNDERSTANDING it this side of a PhD in sound architecture, but 
you can still kind of follow the patch around to get a rough idea what 
might be happening.

With every good wish,
(K)ofi (B)usia