I think people enjoy musical instruments. Digital music really hasn’t caught on much. There are and always will be plenty of musicians playing traditional instruments of all kinds.
I just found out that modular synths are a thing and it looks pretty fun to me! It’s like half music and half electrical engineering, LOL.
(Don’t get me wrong, I knew about keyboard synthesizers and whatnot, but the concept of making music with a bunch of oscillators and random voltage generators patched together is 🤯.)
(Also, shout out to [email protected] for putting me on the Youtube random walk that lead to that video.)
If money and space were no option, I would 100% buy a Buchla synth and have it take up an entire room. Shit would look like the the Bridge of the Starship Enterprise.
I’ve been messing around with VCV rack recently, which is an (open source!) software that simulates modular synthesis, with a library of modules from different vendors. It’s been delightful :)
After watching that video I ran across Cardinal, which is apparently a wrapper around VCV Rack that adds back the ability to be run as a plugin that VCV itself locks behind the “Pro” subscription. It can also run straight from your browser, so that’s how I’ve been trying it out so far.
I think people enjoy musical instruments. Digital music really hasn’t caught on much. There are and always will be plenty of musicians playing traditional instruments of all kinds.
Digital music hasn’t caught on? Since when?
I just found out that modular synths are a thing and it looks pretty fun to me! It’s like half music and half electrical engineering, LOL.
(Don’t get me wrong, I knew about keyboard synthesizers and whatnot, but the concept of making music with a bunch of oscillators and random voltage generators patched together is 🤯.)
(Also, shout out to [email protected] for putting me on the Youtube random walk that lead to that video.)
You will love the in-browser modular synths i found a while back. i think i bookmarked the page.
I’ll see if i can find it.
Edit: Found it immediately!
Here is a page with some virtual instruments and there are a couple modular synths down the page:
https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/virtual-instrument-web-browser/
If money and space were no option, I would 100% buy a Buchla synth and have it take up an entire room. Shit would look like the the Bridge of the Starship Enterprise.
I’ve been messing around with VCV rack recently, which is an (open source!) software that simulates modular synthesis, with a library of modules from different vendors. It’s been delightful :)
After watching that video I ran across Cardinal, which is apparently a wrapper around VCV Rack that adds back the ability to be run as a plugin that VCV itself locks behind the “Pro” subscription. It can also run straight from your browser, so that’s how I’ve been trying it out so far.