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From: bob@ulose.UUCP ( Robert Bismuth )
Newsgroups: net.music.synth
Subject: Re: Re: ircam?
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Date: Sat, 14-Dec-85 11:32:46 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 14 11:32:46 1985
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>  
>     I have unsubscribed once from this newsgroup, and was about to do
> it again(I'm under the impression that I'm the only one on the net who
> plays a memorymoog plus). I've submitted a few articles asking for info, but
> they might as well be black-holed for all the response I received. 
>

Well, I suppose this response is a bit of a flame response ... *sorry*.

I have to both agree and disagree with this posting. While I too think it
would be very good to have ircam able to read and post to this newsgroup,
I think that this posting was a little too hard on this group.

For example:
I have posted several requests for information and received many responses,
most of which I have been able to put to good use. However, I will conceed
that perhaps that is due to my willingness to declare myself a buffoon and
ask simple questions regarding events in my everyday musical life.

>     At any rate, this is not net.my.synth.is.better.than.your.synth, nor is
> it net.midi.interface, it's net.music.synth, and I feel the name qualifies
> the IRCAM much more than a programmer who plays a casio for fun and wants
> to conduct a price survey. If people will watch the amount of drivel that 
> gets posted we won't get too swamped, and if the subject matter stabilizes
> the same way that the present garbage has, your updated kill file can take
> care of things pretty well. 

This is a little harsh. While I don't exactly play a casio, I do play music
for enjoyment - like many others on the net. I am not, and don't want to be,
a professional. What is referred to here as "drivel" is just as important as
the requested in-depth theory and research discussions. Hearing the views of
others on current products/standards, performance/recording techniques/equip-
ment, or the like, to those of us on budgets, is important.

Such postings have something in common with the information ircam might
start discussing here - the sharing of knowledge and experience. After all,
is that not what the usenet is about?

As for discussing what "makes you spine tingle" in music, I find that hard
to do in 7 bit ascii. I can easily create the sounds, but they are awfully
difficult too play on this qwerty keyboard. With all this vogue for transmitting
digital images over nets, why can't we work with the simpler task of music -
then we could really have some discussions and illustrations of the
capabilities of equipment and composers on this net. 

Who knows, perhaps even my poor qwerty keyboard could become a "real" keyboard,
I'd feel more comfortable with that ... :-)

bob
(decvax!ulose!bob)

ps. as usual, these ravings are meerly a product of my own excessively free-
    wheeling mind at work and should not be taken as anything but the words
    of a lunatic, not particularly affiliated with anyone else, taking a 
    break from laying down a track of the cat drowning in the bathtub.