Celebrity Deaths

J3FF3R00 · May 27, 2022

On 5/27/2022 at 12:52 PM, dcom said:

Alan White of Yes.

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Alcofribas · May 27, 2022

On 5/26/2022 at 9:11 PM, psn said:

Oh no... RIP Fletch.

Among my all time faves, saw them on the Music for the Masses tour when I was 13.

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woah, that rules.

RIP legend

Edited May 27, 2022 by Alcofribas

**ignatius** · June 2, 2022

sucks. co inventor of MIDI, all the great synths and drum machines and samplers. RIP legend.

Alcofribas · June 2, 2022

On 6/1/2022 at 11:57 PM, ignatius said:

sucks. co inventor of MIDI, all the great synths and drum machines and samplers. RIP legend.

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wow

Alcofribas · June 2, 2022

On 6/1/2022 at 11:57 PM, ignatius said:

sucks. co inventor of MIDI, all the great synths and drum machines and samplers. RIP legend.

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wow

here is a pic from a while back when i first got my pro-one, it kicked off a lot of really fun recordings and is one of my favorite things. fucking legend. rip

**xox** · June 2, 2022

On 6/1/2022 at 11:57 PM, ignatius said:

sucks. co inventor of MIDI, all the great synths and drum machines and samplers. RIP legend.

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Ah shit! He just released the new Obie with Tom Oberheim and he said new stuff is coming soon, probably September! shit shit fuck! Great loss for our synth loving community

d-a-m-o · June 2, 2022

Horrible news, a true pioneer , RIP Dave…

**iococoi** · June 2, 2022

:catcry:

Grain Bastard · June 2, 2022

Oh shit - RIP Mr Smith

My Mopho has been getting a lot of use the past few months as it hadn’t been connected for ages. Fantastic synth.

The biggest thing for me though is MIDI… without that I wouldn’t be as happy as I am in my life. I never learned to play an instrument and I’ve never really wanted to either. For some reason though I wanted to learn to program sequencers.

Thanks for everything Dave ?

**ignatius** · June 6, 2022

oh man. this sucks. i knew he had some serious health problems and feared the worst when h e announced he couldn't do his podcast anymore. RIP Darwin. https://player.fm/series/art-music-technology-122010

d-a-m-o · June 6, 2022

On 6/6/2022 at 5:40 PM, ignatius said:

oh man. this sucks. i knew he had some serious health problems and feared the worst when h e announced he couldn't do his podcast anymore. RIP Darwin. https://player.fm/series/art-music-technology-122010

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His podcast was great, so many great guests... RIP

**exitonly** · June 7, 2022

On 6/6/2022 at 5:40 PM, ignatius said:

oh man. this sucks. i knew he had some serious health problems and feared the worst when h e announced he couldn't do his podcast anymore. RIP Darwin. https://player.fm/series/art-music-technology-122010

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I came here to post this, having just read about his passing elsewhere.

Sometime around 2009 I applied for a QA position at Cycling 74. I had an interview with Darwin, Andrew Pask and a few other people.Everyone was super friendly and I really enjoyed meeting them all. I ended up getting passed for the position. Sometime about a year later I ran into Darwin at an AES meeting. i approached him to say hi, and had no bad thoughts or even a desire to bring up the interview. He remembered me though and was (as far as I could tell) sincerely remorseful and empathic that I had been passed up. Not in any way lamenting who they hired, but he just seemed to honestly care how I felt about the situation. I was really struck by it and it stayed with me up until now.

Outside of that, his articles for Cycling 74 have been tremendously useful and the podcast was great. RIP