"you'd find it very hard to buy a modern keyboard that does not depend on samples for its instrument sounds"
Moog, DSI and Nord would like to have a word with you.
Analog and analog modelling digital synths have been pretty much taking over from romplers over the past few years. Workstation 'boards from Korg, Roland and Yamaha are still pretty sample dependent, but they're not anywhere near as prevalent as they were 5 years ago.
There are a ton of elaborately sampled instruments available as VSTis for modern DAWs, but that number pales in comparison to the quantity of pure software based synthesis plugins on the market.
It was absolutely 'one of those nights'. There was a strong hint of Mr. Bungle in the air (bari in the house... waddayagonnado?), with an Indian vibe whenever the clarinet, Ebow and Wavedrum tablas started happening.
Controller dude was a wild man... aleatoric sequences, marimba solos, slovak radio samples... he'd snag bass riffs from the start of a jam, tweeze 'em up and have them ready to loop by the time the verse came around again. Really *really* skilled musician, and it was his first time in an ensemble situation.
I spent Friday night playing drums in a rehearsal studio with a self taught guitarist, a bassist and reeds player who are both fly-shit reading graduates of the local jazz program, and a controllerist who was 'just a guy in skinny jeans with Ableton, a Macbook and a grid controller'. It was controller dude's first time playing anywhere outside of his bedroom; the rest of us had *decades* of studio and live experience. The music was improv fusion.
Controller dude played like he belonged in the room with us. Does that make him a 'musician', or the rest of us 'non musicians'?
Your knowledge of musical instruments is unfortunately flawed. I can't be arsed pointing out every erroneous statement you make regarding synth technology, but there are many.
See: Analog synthesis, digital synthesis, resynthesis, modelling, SID, VSTi, OSC, etc. etc.
I'm not going to call you a moron, although you really do deserve it.
Your ability to avoid kneejerk related RSI is a tribute to your personal training regimen. There's likely a well paying career waiting for you in sports medicine, should you choose to pursue it.
She should have learned guitar by playing something entirely original. As it stands, she stole Simon's material, and will now leverage that theft and her subsequent exposure into 10s of dollars of adsense profit and a heartwarming audition segment on America's Got Talent, with no thought whatsoever to the hundreds of hardworking music industry employees she's condemning to a life of dumpster diving and convenience store hold-ups.
You're thinking of an 808. 909's are what the labels insist on being added to every released track, even if the original drummer was Steve freaking Gadd.
Cuz that's what the focus groups say the kids like.
Good idea, because by the time a real orchestra is 'produced', time and pitch corrected, compressed for maximum loudness and squeezed down to MP3 format like the industry demands, it's gonna sound like 2 blokes pressing chords on a mellotron and a Solina string ensemble.
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Moog, DSI and Nord would like to have a word with you.
Analog and analog modelling digital synths have been pretty much taking over from romplers over the past few years. Workstation 'boards from Korg, Roland and Yamaha are still pretty sample dependent, but they're not anywhere near as prevalent as they were 5 years ago.
There are a ton of elaborately sampled instruments available as VSTis for modern DAWs, but that number pales in comparison to the quantity of pure software based synthesis plugins on the market.
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Controller dude was a wild man... aleatoric sequences, marimba solos, slovak radio samples... he'd snag bass riffs from the start of a jam, tweeze 'em up and have them ready to loop by the time the verse came around again. Really *really* skilled musician, and it was his first time in an ensemble situation.
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Controller dude played like he belonged in the room with us. Does that make him a 'musician', or the rest of us 'non musicians'?
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Re: There IS a difference.
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See: Analog synthesis, digital synthesis, resynthesis, modelling, SID, VSTi, OSC, etc. etc.
I'm not going to call you a moron, although you really do deserve it.
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Put up or shut up.
Start squirming.
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Put up or shut up, okay?
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Cuz that's what the focus groups say the kids like.
Same thing with autotune.
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Dude has more credentials and credibility than you and the rest of the industry shills combined.
Show some respect to your betters, son.
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Let's take another shot of Google juice, Darryl
http://www.meshconference.com/ethan-kaplan/
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