Re: OT $1.95 synth!

[Richard Sales <richard@glasswing.com>]

Oh!  I was just saying - in reference to an earlier email about the market size - that the synth market isn't that big in the scale of things. 

Of course it's good for software to be cheap.  That isn't what I was saying. 

I'm all in favor of putting power tools in the hands of the masses.  No judgment of other musicians implied.  That's not my business.

Did I understand what you were saying?

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On 13-Jun-07, at 1:39 PM, sine@zerocrossing.net wrote:

> Right, but I was in music retail in those days, and if memory serves a DX7
> would run you $1999 in 83 dollars.  Now you can buy the software version
> for $300.  With a PC to run it, midi controller and a firewire audio
> interface you'd probably be able to make it happen for the same money...
> in 07 dollars.
>
> so, the times, they are a-changing.  Like the Fender Stratocaster opened
> the guitar market to poor kids, the VST and cheap PC has opened the
> electronic music market.  SUre, most may be hacks and hobbiests, but so
> what?  I think that's actually a good thing.  "folk music" so to speak.
>
> M
>
>
> > Back in the day of analogue synths, like mid eighties, I heard that the
> > market (moneys in) for synths all together equalled the market of one
> > big Safeway.   And that was when a good synth cost big bucks.