I don't feel it's a good thing.Way off topic here Kevin, but since you're a synth lover and cat lover, how do you feel about cat fur around synths?
However, I feel young cats or young children around synths are potentially worse.
Younger cats will jump onto things, spray to mark their territory, etc.
Young children consider almost anything a toy.
I have removed pop tarts from gear before where children were allowed into a studio.
A memory cartridge slot looks like a good place to put in a cookie.
Also, I have a unique situation.
One bedroom here is only for cats.
No synths have ever been in that room.
The other cats here, allowed to be around synths, are all older, don't spray and have been trained to stay off them and the work benches.
They're too old to jump very high anyways.
I also have an outside building here with an air compressor and an underground pressure line delivering air into the house.
So everything is blown off completely.
From experience, I feel that dust and age are the worst things to happen to synths.
I would rather own a synth properly used and maintained than one stored or unused for long periods of time uncovered.
Here in our dusty desert mountains, every synth is covered.
We use shower curtains often: large, thick plastic and cheap
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Also, almost every synth serviced here is given an actual bath first, then serviced.
I don't encounter dust or hairs by the time I'm actually working on the synth itself.
But I don't recommend this method to anyone not so equipped to deal with immediate water removal and certain protections in place.
I use soft water and again, an air compressor and live in the dry desert.
That's why I can get away with doing this to synths:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwRlZyIG6rg
I know it looks crazy, but it's been a big help in delivering clean, reliable synths to clients.
As to the comment that this is a big deal made over a small issue, I agree.
What's not immediately apparent however is how many times it occurs.
Most of my site's bandwidth was from people using my photos as desktop wallpaper for their PCs or MySpace backgrounds.
Or for products sold by companies such as Koblo, audioMidi and even Virgin Air ads.
It doesn't bode well with me to take things for resale purposes that I put hard work into.
No, Matrix did not remove my photos when asked.
He kept them, credited them as "anonymous" and then said, falsely, I wanted to sue him. I never said any such thing.
I've never sued anyone except the auto tow yard that stripped my stolen RX-7.
Years later, that same tow yard was the one featured in the OJ Simpson trials for doing the exact same thing to OJ's Bronco.
I had those same people up on the stand that he did and for the same reasons, years before.
But I've never been sued myself and don't feel it's the right way to address many problems.
It's far easier to write a lawyer friend at Google or Microsoft and have them take action in-house.
That's what I did in this case and what I did with Matrixsynth.
Big corporations have big law depts and some of those lawyers have been my clients.
Why sue when a lawyer friend can pull a few strings and obtain the same results?
Ask for the shirt off my back and I'll probably give it to you.
Take the shirt off my back and you better be ready to defend yourself.
