In message <199506041705.KAA14043@taz.hyperreal.com> you wrote:
quoted 10 lines As a synth musician I find that while I labor mightily over some> >As a synth musician I find that while I labor mightily over some
> >patches to get a distinctive sound for a song, as I'm filling it
> >out, I cycle through presets looking for stuff. Sometimes a preset
> >is just the ticket.
> Damn right...exactly my sentiments...
> if the sound is good..the sound is good... If I programmed it
> myself...nice.. but I don't have to do good work if it's been done already
> do I ?
> Love,
> AA
Precisely - the art of preset-tweaking is greatly underrated, but if you
have to program a synth from the front panel 'cos you can't afford/find
an editor it's often the best (only!) way. As for the claim that Spanners
has got JD all over it - isn't this the same as saying that Orbital tracks
are covered in 909 or Plastikman tracks are all BassLine <g>
Just my $0.02 of course. And while we're on the subject of 909s, has anyone
outside the US managed to d/l the 909 samples off Hyperreal? Every time I try
to ftp them, I get about 50KB worth at a rate of about 2KB/min and then the
connection times out. This has happened about five times now (at varying
times of day, from midday to 8pm BST); is it possible?
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