Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!auvm!PITTVMS!METLAY From: METLAY@PITTVMS.BITNET Newsgroups: bit.listserv.emusic-l Subject: Re: Is this a Waldorf I see before me? Message-ID: Date: 22 Feb 90 00:18:00 GMT Sender: Electronic Music Discussion List Reply-To: Electronic Music Discussion List Lines: 11 Approved: NETNEWS@AUVM.BITNET Gateway X-Envelope-to: EMUSIC-L@AUVM.BITNET X-VMS-To: IN%"EMUSIC-L@AUVM.BITNET" Actually, the first instruments to have any sort of FX on board were the early Korgs (the DW8000) and the VS. A lot of people hated the idea, because onboard effects supposedly represented a means of simultaneously adding bells and whistles to a boring synth and of hiding its sound weaknesses. Funny how opinions have shifted. (I, personally, think that a well-made FX section is very handy. But NOT if it wrecks the sound of the synth! Which is why I like the DW and the DSS-1, whose DDLs are wicked silent, and HATE the K4 and the other modern workstations, whose digital FX processors are always putrid with quiescent noise. Bleah!) metlay