Serox wrote:man that pic with all the lines is not what music is about imo
but that is how your synths are made which you use before they are lockd up in code and given a fancy user interface! (graphical modular programming, C,C+, Java)...and say that to all the big names that use Reaktor... (Skream/Aphex Twin/SquarePusher/Autechre/NiN/etc) and all the other musicians around the world who use it (aswell as max/msp and PureData) to create new amazing instruments and sounds.
i've owned reaktor for a very long time, it's the only thing i make music with (apart from guitar in my band)
hobbyists and musicians want to dig for new sounds which are unheard of by other people and which current softsynths cannot make. Programming synthesizers (via Java or Modular programming enviroments, C,C+) is one way of doing this. it's not for everybody, but it's certainly an alternative to the novel technology and synths provided to you by the industry which are knock off's of synths and sound design techniques which are popularized by the big names in electronic music. there's nothing wrong in settling for those synths but by the time you have received them, the thinkers and the doer's (the innovators and big names) have already moved on...and the route you take to follow, provided to you, is probably the longest route you could take to audio innovation.
Finding ways of creating new sound ("that pic with all those lines" as you refer to it)
is one aspect of what music is about, it depends how far you want to look for it. And Like i say, there is nothing wrong with settling for what you are presented with or spending a week programming a 6 oscillator synth from scratch, which i did for no reason whatsoever other than for the fun of it, only to never use it again. Hopefully you get the point as to why some people go to such lengths.
Alot of people take sound design and instrument design very very feckin seriously...you need to realise that. and then understand where the synths you use come from.
right, rant over.
