this is the box where i live

["Jan P" <jan@gomotech.com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: George Van Wagner <vanwag@earthlink.net>
To: Loopers-Delight <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 6:29 PM
Subject: Re: Guitar synth..take it (or leave it ) for what it is


>I know that it wasn't, and I didn't mean to sound quite so abrupt. Blame 
>a busy day at work. My sincere apologies if any offense was taken.
>
>Don't get me wrong. I love the concept of MIDI guitar. The 
>implementations, thus far, have not been acceptable to me, those last two 
>words being the defining ones. I have no trouble with others struggling 
>with the current spate of controllers and learning to work around their 
>limitations. More power to them. My personal interest is in making music, 
>not in learning the eccentricities of a related, yet vastly different 
>instrument than the one I play, and certainly not in altering the way I 
>work to accomodate technology. Good technology folds itself into your 
>work methods, or at least it should, in my opinion. User interface is 
>always the hardest part of design.


re: technology

'...and we can be bothered.' -Roger Waters, Pink Floyd Live from Pompei


-jan