Hi Zip!
I wish someone would have exposed me to modular or electronic music back then.
When I was ten years old, I had three transistors in a Radio Shack 100-in-1 electronics kit, and I made every sound making project the kit offered. Then I would add in every spare component in the kit into the circuits in various ways, making the sounds wilder and wilder.
I was trying to figure out a transistor circuit that could remember a series of numbers, iterate through them, and turn the numbers into voltages and then into tones. I didnt know that was called a sequencer. No one had exposed me to IC chips yet, that didnt come until about four years later with Byte Magazine. In grade school, I was trying to draw a transistor circuit of the modern day musical greeting card!
I wish someone had connected all that to music for me. I hated music class taught with recorders and singing right along with all my friends.
Other than Reason, and a handful of synths bought over the years, I never got hooked enough to learn to play, and I totally missed all this modular stuff until last summer. Dont know how I missed it all for so long, but am now hooked.
- Garnet
There was a modular synth in the lab, built especially to Ussachevsky's specification.