Hey now, us synth-diy guys have been around a lot longer than hipsters! :P Seriously though, this announcement from Google does reek of "invented in ignorance

Hey now, us synth-diy guys have been around a lot longer than hipsters! :P Seriously though, this announcement from Google does reek of "invented in ignorance"-style NIH'erism .. but then again, it may be an effective marketing ploy, given that there are so, so many kids getting into synthesisers, who don't have a foggy clue what decades of technology has produced, in terms of the state of the art. Its a common thing in synthesisers though - someone comes up with some 'amazing new technique nobody has ever thought of before', and ends up .. producing sounds just like the 303's and DX's before them ..