Ian K Tindale on Nostr: eh? The 90s was a disaster time for user interface (well I’m classing the ...
eh? The 90s was a disaster time for user interface (well I’m classing the mid-late80s into the mid-late 90s as that time) – we had the DX7, DX21, TX7 and that family of synths and of course the M1 and so many other lesser synths related to that line – the upshot of it was that we had synths with a handful of buttons, perhaps one data slider, and a tiny two-line display that nobody bothered to use, only selecting presets ever
The upshot of the arrival of those anonymous faceless slabs was that all the useful old analogue synths got dumped for the new, and a few years later, House music emerged from the cheap secondhand 303/101/202/808 boxes available in junk shops and secondhand shops for nearly nothing – yet those were the ones with actual knobs on (although bafflingly obtuse sequencer UIs)
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