Thanks Sacred Synthesis. I do like the outdoors and try to get to quiet environments like in Southern Ohio and in the mountains of West Virginia every so often to refresh. Doing so often reminds me just how noisy today's world is, especially now, when even the gas pumps have a TV screen blasting commercials at you.
It's perhaps an interesting story how I got into synthesis in the first place- which is related. I used to help my older brother build those Radio Shack electronic kits. Some were quite nice, like the "electronic bird". By moving jumper wires from one spring to the next you could emulate different bird calls. At that time I was just a kid, but I really liked this Tomita album he had called "Kosmos". It was so just amazingly unworldly, yet earthy. I'd sit there listening to it , looking at the album picture of Tomita surrounded by his synths, and think...man, I'd love to do that someday. And so...I'd pick up that darn electronic bird kit and just pretend
Well, I ended up playing drumset most of my life instead, but that all changed about 9 years ago. I was walking into Guitar Center to buy a cymbal, and instead of that, I left with a used Novation K station. That's when I realized...hey, they actually make affordable consumer equipment that can do those old Tomita sounds. Keep in mind that I knew nothing about synths at that point, but since then slowly learned, and much thru the wonderful knowledge of the folks on the DSI forum(s). So, the quest continues full-circle I guess, and once again brings me back to making bird sounds.