Amazing project you have there with Synth Ux Academy, as a VST designer who is now starting to enter the hardware world with a small startup it is always inspiring to watch.
I would love to see a collaboration between Expert Sleepers and Joranalogue. Their design ethos of "do it differently" really stands out for both companies. Maybe a hybrid analog and digital module of some type.
Again, a privilege to listen in to your conversation. I wonder if you might have got hung up on what is performative and would have had immediate common ground if someone had said 'expressive' and how a tool, device, instrument, whatever can be used to achieve that? Andrew appears to have a digital brain and an analogue heart, I hope his path leads to the analogue poly synth like no other ..
Thanks! The topic of performance, VS tool is always a debate, but tbh, I think we're giving too much attention to the semantics. Any design should be purposeful and mindful of the user using it and the context in which it is used. As long as we all agree on that, the conversation can go to more interesting places.
Loved the podcast. One day i'll master the user interface of my disting. ;-) Big kudos for one of the best firmware updates and long term product support in the industry. looking forward to the next modules. best regards from denmark!
i have 2 disting ex's in my system. once you got that module, which isn't an easy thing, its unbeatable. there is nothing you can't do with it!!! it stll has its bugs here and there, but still a fantastic module. i wish the display were a bit bigger! Os is one of the best in the game at the moment imo!
I enjoy this cast. But I will say that the difference between a "controller" and an "instrument" is not a philosophical question. A Push2 COMBINED with Ableton makes an instrument that I like a lot. But without connecting it to Ableton or something else. Push 2 is a paperweight. Push 2 is a really good controller for Ableton. But it is in fact JUST a controller.That is simply a fact. Calling something a controller does not diminish how inspiring or creative you might find it to use. But a really good controller alone does not make an instrument. It is the physical interface to control the instrument of which it is connected. Just like the best most inspiring guitar fretboard in the world can not be an instrument on it's own.
@@Grummycanader not sure it is. Definitely not a very important one. Whether we call something a controller, or an instrument doesn't matter mutch in my opinion. What matters is how thought out it is. There are well thought controllers, and there are terrible ones. Same with instruments. To me it doesn't matter if the physical device includes a sound generator or not, to call it an instrument (Push + Ableton is a brilliant instrument, but indeed, Push alone is a paper weight). What matters is how well the thing is designed for the intended purpose and human.
@@SynthuxAcademy as a customer it would matter a lot to me. If I bought something that I was lead to believe was a stand alone instrument that turned out to only be a controller. I’d be unhappy. For example The difference between NI Maschine 3 vs Maschine+. They both are well thought out designs that function almost identically. What justifies the big price difference is that Maschine 3 is literally JUST a controller. Whereas Maschine+ can actually be used as a stand alone instrument. In my eyes this isn’t a debate. It’s an important distinction of what the device itself actually is in reality. In my opinion it would be an important distinction in which a designer should be aware.
Amazing project you have there with Synth Ux Academy, as a VST designer who is now starting to enter the hardware world with a small startup it is always inspiring to watch.
Thanks so much!
I would love to see a collaboration between Expert Sleepers and Joranalogue. Their design ethos of "do it differently" really stands out for both companies. Maybe a hybrid analog and digital module of some type.
Again, a privilege to listen in to your conversation. I wonder if you might have got hung up on what is performative and would have had immediate common ground if someone had said 'expressive' and how a tool, device, instrument, whatever can be used to achieve that? Andrew appears to have a digital brain and an analogue heart, I hope his path leads to the analogue poly synth like no other ..
Thanks! The topic of performance, VS tool is always a debate, but tbh, I think we're giving too much attention to the semantics. Any design should be purposeful and mindful of the user using it and the context in which it is used. As long as we all agree on that, the conversation can go to more interesting places.
Loved the podcast. One day i'll master the user interface of my disting. ;-) Big kudos for one of the best firmware updates and long term product support in the industry. looking forward to the next modules. best regards from denmark!
i have 2 disting ex's in my system. once you got that module, which isn't an easy thing, its unbeatable. there is nothing you can't do with it!!! it stll has its bugs here and there, but still a fantastic module. i wish the display were a bit bigger! Os is one of the best in the game at the moment imo!
great podcast, keep them coming thx!
Love listening to smart people, thanks for sharing.
Cheers! Thanks for dropping by
I enjoy this cast. But I will say that the difference between a "controller" and an "instrument" is not a philosophical question. A Push2 COMBINED with Ableton makes an instrument that I like a lot. But without connecting it to Ableton or something else. Push 2 is a paperweight. Push 2 is a really good controller for Ableton. But it is in fact JUST a controller.That is simply a fact. Calling something a controller does not diminish how inspiring or creative you might find it to use. But a really good controller alone does not make an instrument. It is the physical interface to control the instrument of which it is connected. Just like the best most inspiring guitar fretboard in the world can not be an instrument on it's own.
Thanks, Aaron! That's a solid analytical argument to the debate.
@@SynthuxAcademy it’s a debate?
@@Grummycanader not sure it is. Definitely not a very important one. Whether we call something a controller, or an instrument doesn't matter mutch in my opinion. What matters is how thought out it is. There are well thought controllers, and there are terrible ones. Same with instruments. To me it doesn't matter if the physical device includes a sound generator or not, to call it an instrument (Push + Ableton is a brilliant instrument, but indeed, Push alone is a paper weight). What matters is how well the thing is designed for the intended purpose and human.
@@SynthuxAcademy as a customer it would matter a lot to me. If I bought something that I was lead to believe was a stand alone instrument that turned out to only be a controller. I’d be unhappy. For example The difference between NI Maschine 3 vs Maschine+. They both are well thought out designs that function almost identically. What justifies the big price difference is that Maschine 3 is literally JUST a controller. Whereas Maschine+ can actually be used as a stand alone instrument. In my eyes this isn’t a debate. It’s an important distinction of what the device itself actually is in reality. In my opinion it would be an important distinction in which a designer should be aware.
@@Grummycanader true
the long segment on whether things are an instrument or performance tool was pretty unnecessary
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FFT's, please!!!
what will you do with FFTs?
@@kamalmanzukie spectral freezing, filtering, small size, like 2046 bands, it depends on the chip capability