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Kent said:

quoted 5 lines Any more, I'm most comfortable cutting and pasting digital audio to

>Any more, I'm most comfortable cutting and pasting digital audio to >do my programming. Now that's BELOW step time MIDI recording -- it's >like writing music with tweezers and a microscope. Perhaps it's some >reflection on my essential lameness that I like stuff better when I put >it together without hearing it, than when I play it in.

Interesting how things come full circle... this is rather like a sanitized version of good old-fashioned musique concrete techniques, isn't it? "tweezers and a microscope." For myself, I'm quite content with my sequencer... re: "Home taping is killing the music industry"... wasn't it the Dead Kennedys who printed that on side B of a tape of theirs, followed by: "...we left this side blank so you can help"? Fabulous. J ________ \ / | "I don't want more choices, H. James Harkins | I just want nicer things!" jharkins@acpub.duke.edu | \/ | -- Edina Monsoon "The sky is big enough to let all the clouds pass." -- Kobai Scott Whitney