It’s funny how I’ve been writing non-stop about how, if we only were to open up to new possibilities, we might find something that we are truly interested in, but that we might have never imagined the importance of if we had not opened up to it. I don’t know if I worded that right, but I got carried away today working on the first video for my upcoming YouTube channel, which I wrote about yesterday, and I forgot to get started with today’s blog post. Therefore, I’m now rushing to complete it, especially because it’s already been like seventy days straight. Anyway, the thing I was talking about at the beginning of this post is modular synthesis. The other day I wrote about how I’ve really been getting into synthesizers for the last couple of years, and although I always knew modular synthesis was a thing, and that it considered to be on another level from regular synthesis, it just seemed so complicated and out there that I never really paid much attention to it, I thought it would just be something I would have to worry about way, way in the future, after many years of messing around with synths. Because of my YouTube channel idea for music tutorials, I recently decided to start learning about everything synth-related that I still didn’t know. Today I went on YouTube and typed in “modular synthesis,” but I wasn’t expecting that what I would learn would keep me hooked on learning about it for pretty much the entire rest of the day. See, I had already watched a video or two about modular synthesis when I first got into synthesis in general, since I used to watch a lot of Andrew Huang’s videos on YouTube, but I have to confess that I never really understood it, so I never really understood just how amazing it is. I guess that now, because I already know a bit more about how synths work, I was actually able to grasp the main concepts involved in modular synthesis, and boy, did it blow me away. I pretty much realized that, whenever one builds a modular patch, one is basically building one’s own synthesizer. All the colorful patch cables one sees hanging all over big modular setups are actually doing the same things that are done inside of any other synthesizer, the difference is that with modular, we are creating the connections and setting them up in the way we want. These specific connections we choose to set up are basically the inner workings of the synth we are creating. Now, I am aware that modular synthesis is a very expensive hobby, so I am now more motivated than ever to make this YouTube thing work, both because I have now one more big rabbit hole to explore for my videos, namely modular synthesis, and because I need to finance all the gear I’m planning to buy! It’s funny because I’ve usually never been a very materialistic person, and I’ve also never been into electronic things, or at least their inner workings, too much. Like I said though, it’s funny what can fascinate you if you just give it a chance. Keep on living and learning y’all. Much love.
If you have a few minutes check out my song ‘somewhere out there.’ I appreciate you!
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