On Mon, 12 Jun 1995, ozymandias G desiderata wrote:
quoted 5 lines Is there anybody but me that sees the irony in the fact that> 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.
Well, futurism was not particularly in vogue when all of the futuristic
equipment was coming out. Much of the new wavetable/digital stuff does
not have wacky features and sound capabilities, just
acoustic-sound-imitative potential in the design. You can get
interesting sounds, but the harmonics of an old analog synth are more
extreme and create more *connotations* of futuristic sound. For
instance, think of science fiction movies from 1970 and 1990: which had
more wacked out sounds/timbres? 85-95 has been about
imitative-sound-making synth-engines it seems, not whacked-out-futuristic
modulars...
David Chandler - chandler@nethost.multnomah.lib.or.us (503)301-3011
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