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1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Nov-2018 15:46:28 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

   I just learned that Eurorack YouTubers exist, and it's hilarious.

   1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Nov-2018 16:04:22 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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      It's always so funny with these people who want to make music exclusively with outboard analog synths, and they have to spend thousands of dollars only to get a rig that sounds vaguely like Kraftwerk and could easily be outdone by a laptop with an audio interface and a DAW. The live performance aspect isn't hard to pull off either. There are thousands of MIDI controllers available on the market.

      1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Nov-2018 16:10:47 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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         "Software synths could never replicate this sound."

         Are you telling me that we are unable to perform accurate electrical circuit simulations on a computer, and that Harry Nyquist and Claude Shannon were wrong?

         Your only hope of winning that argument is to prove that there are (audible) aspects of analog circuits that we haven't yet taken into account in the digital simulations. And once you can prove it, we can go right ahead and implement it.

         1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Nov-2018 16:13:29 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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            My criterium for audibility is that it can be detected in A/B tests, and/or that the psychoacoustic models in the scientific literature back it up.

            Of course, none of this is about facts. People get emotionally attached and like a mystery. What they don't like is boring facts.