Modular Synthesis Explained! - Everything is Voltage!

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Jason Howell (3:06)

Welcome to the DTNS Weekend Edition, gratefully provided to you for your support of this show.

I'm Jason Howell, and we got some more audio goodness to talk about, because we did this a few weeks ago, and I know I had a great time. I know my guest, Rich Stroffolino, had I think a great time because you're back, Rich.

Rich Stroffolino (3:27)

It's good to have you back. It is fantastic to be here. Someone said I was smiling the whole time, which is kind of how I felt when I was on. So I'm very happy I'm back.

Jason Howell (3:36)

Yeah, I think we probably said this the last time, but for me, like I've got guitars hanging on the wall. I love music. I rarely get the chance to talk about it because we're so entrenched in technology topics. So music and technology do overlap, but they don't end it.

A lot of the times I find don't walk in the same circles as the Jensen Wong passionate people and the big tech news of the week. There's small pockets of people that get it, but some of these topics that we're going to talk about today, I think, will be really interesting to people because who might not also be into music technology because I'm sure a lot of people have seen modular synthesis before. When you think of real nerdy, kind of like complex and complicated music technology, you think of these wires spitting out of a control panel with all these holes and you plug them in and everything and all these 1,000 buttons, kind of like the dashboard of a jet or a commercial airplane. You're like, well, how the heck do you even know how to control this stuff? This is modular synthesis and we're going to talk a little bit about that today. It's kind of like building a PC, but it's that for synthesis and for music.

Rich Stroffolino (4:55)