Music is not based in sound, but in harmonic language. (This means non-pitched percussion doesn't count. Arguably, even Milton Babbitt would disagree with me.) However, timbre has some relation to intonation, and this latter facilitates harmonic language.
Without these, you have a sonic experience. You might enjoy it, but it ain't music. (Xenakis would surely disagree with me.)
So, back to gear: analog synths produce cheesy, generic, raw sounds, that effects can't dress up.
By the way, whether they may disagree with me, my sources trump yours - not only chronologically, but academically, and philosophically.
> > But blows for actual musical timbres. Digital all the way. > > lol, now you're just trolling. > > And what the hell is a "musical timbre"?! > > You can make music out of anything that produces a sound. A synthesizer (analog or > digital) is a real instrument in its own right, if you like it better when it sounds > like a saxophone or an acoustic guitar, fine, but why waste time with that when you > can make so many awesome and fresh sounds that nobody has ever heard before? > > Have you ever heard of Walter/Wendy Carlos? > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Carlos > > Joe Zawinul? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Zawinul > Listen to the Weather Report albums Tale Spinnin', Black Market and Heavy Weather. > > S
Consider it high comedy....sincere tragedy....whatever...don't take it personally.
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