[Fpga-synth] Growing pains

[Theo Verelst]

> Can you help me out here - I don't work in DSP, so I think I don't have the experience to
> understand this: "all the hacks and false prophets building dark empires by abusing plots and
> schemes to sin against the good music and decent digital processing"
> 
> I have to wonder - am I guilty?  I do "sin" in that I (for example) use approximations when they
> simplify a problem and the approximation doesn't affect the outcome (to my ears).  Not sure I
> understand what a DSP music dark empire is nor who a false prophet might be.
> 
> I do realize that there is humor here, but again, I think my inexperience prevents me from getting
> the full effect of it.

Sure Scott, I mean not that that is wrong, I suppose it is even fun!

But there is often like a 'faith'  in things that led to music which is
more based on for me not so attractive processing, which isn't made
because the persons want the exact kind of sounds, but because they are
about certain types of processing.

Like if I want t play loud guitar I could buy a Marshal stack or invent
a new Peavy or use some plugins I love for their sound, but it's more
like some fairly dark forces want to make sure they' re the lead in the
whole of plugin land and such.

I mean, why does someone want to do DSP or maybe even more advanced
(depending on background) FPGA processing, because such a person likes
music or wants to mesmerize certain people when they get high with
things music teachers would rightfully ban if they'd have say?

I think making open source machinery and software is almost certain to
be kind of nice, there's just a lot of 'new' people who don't have your
and my good musical and sound education in mind, and where I come from
that led to more powergames then Open Source thus far seems to be able
to handle in a decent way.

Theo