On Jun 12, 9:21pm, Mark Kolmar wrote:
quoted 12 lines Subject: Re: Query??> Subject: Re: Query??
> On Mon, 12 Jun 1995, ozymandias G desiderata wrote:
>
> > Is there anybody but me that sees the irony in the fact that
> > it frequently seems like techno musicians are making the music of
> > tomorrow with the technology of ten years ago? Is that how long it
> > takes to understand a given synthesizer? Maybe I'd better stick with
> > guitar.
>
> That's how long it takes some people to forget how a particular machine
> was marketed and what it was "supposed" to do.
>
Well, it's was more of a question of economics. The roland x0x machines were
not a big hit when they came out. So you could get them really cheap on the
used market....
quoted 3 lines The Roland TB-303 was designed to be a bad replacement for a bass> The Roland TB-303 was designed to be a bad replacement for a bass
> guitar. It is now the archetypical acid machine.
>
Really bad, indeed...
quoted 4 lines I don't think it takes that long to figure out a given synthesizer, it's> I don't think it takes that long to figure out a given synthesizer, it's
> just taken that long for these sounds to become more common.
>
>-- End of excerpt from Mark Kolmar
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