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  BTW did you know they don't even teach cursive writing in amerikan elementary skools?  I'm aghast!

I have a third grader in public school and he's learning cursive. They also say the pledge of allegiance every morning.
 
Rocky

JohnKenn
Okay Fleer, the kid is calling you on this one. Wants to know what an affective effect is. He is okay with the Affector name and assumes it will be an audio plugin.

Believe it or not, but I wrote my first book on that, way back when. Still available maybe.
Anyway, as an audio plugin, the Affector would have to do much more than any reverb, chorus, flanger, phaser or multi-effect does seasoning our sounds. Those take the musician as their alpha and the audience as their omega. But your grandson's Affector will include the audience as an equally affective factor for its sound creation. It will affect the player as well as the listener in such a way that both experience the same musical nirvana, as both jointly participate in its creation.

Wow...so you're saying that our whole universe could be just one tiny atom on the fingernail of some being who lives in another universe and that just one tiny atom on his or her fingernail could contain yet another universe...or even an infinite number of universes?????

Can you sell me some pot??

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Oh yeah.

All that software does and will ever do is mimick reality. This applies to VSTs just as it does to self-driving cars, VR, self-ordering fridges, etc.
 
Hence, IMHO nothing beats learning and understanding about the real physics first, so whatever your grandson embarks on, he should try to get the best possible education in natural sciences first. if you got a solid background, it is easy to understand what is in the box (no matter which box it is, physics work the same, so does math). If you don't have sufficient background, you really don't have much of a chance and live off pieces of scattered information ...

So true, and confident that the kid is headed in the right direction. Master of Legos before 2, straight A's honor student now. Some of his thoughts on this are quite good. With the whole universe of creative invention and intuition, how come we stopped with maybe 6 or 7 effects. There's got to be number 8 and beyond we haven't thought of yet that would be just as cool and useful as the ones we have settled with.
 
He said not to worry though if we can't think of a new effect class. He'll figure out the next block buster and give it to us for free. Might take awhile, but got faith he can pull it off.

I'd suggest looking at things like Tantra - invest a plugin that lets us create new sounds...

Okay, checking it out. Hey do you really fly those things? Only taxied the small ones around the runway and turned the wrenches for you guys who were up there with the angels.
 
Rocky, with a growing proportion of kids graduation from high school without being able to read and write, political correct injunction to not mention the "G" word in public lest some **** and an army of willing lawyers get offended, so glad to hear that your kid is on the right path.
 
John

Tantra's a good example, like Output's Movement, SonicCharge's Echobode or even SugarBytes' Obscurium.

On a personal note, after classical music and flute training between ages 7 and 18, I started looking into hardware synths in the eighties, first getting an Alpha Juno 2, next a Korg DS-8, then an Alesis QuadraSynth and later an Alesis Fusion. Kept the two last ones, yet never played them. Dabbled with (electro) acoustic guitars. Got a 25 Anniversary Ovation from my wife as a wedding present and collected a few more, yet nothing fancy. Picked up tradition some thirty years later with a Roland FA and a few keyboard controllers, including Nektar's P6 and NI's Kontrol S49. Still boxed.
Why am I saying this? During that 30 years interlude, I witnessed the industry turn software and, most importantly, I saw that software became more and more affordable as well as professional.
This software evolution is quite incredible. Mere mortals can now achieve for a few hundred bucks what normally costs tens of thousands. If they're up to it.
And that's a huge if. I'm not just talking musical knowledge. I'm talking musical experience, insight and judgment. As we have and cherish all these plugins, the final courtroom is within our head.
So that's where John's grandson could make a difference. Through learning apps. Or software that allows us to first ascertain which musical direction we want to go, and next helps us with selecting the right plugins. Learning by doing.