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.
It's actually pretty simple. Guitars are made to sound like guitars.
Violins are made to sound like violins. Piano's are made to sound like
piano's. Unfortunately modern synths are made to sound like guitars,
violins, pianos... Catch my drift? From the beginning synthesizers were
designed to synthesize sounds that came from other instruments. As the
technology gets better the instruments have a lessening degree of
individual characteristic and feel. Older synths don't sound like
piano's and strings and horns. They sound like electronic noises. Each
analog synth has it's own sound and even among the same design,
instruments have differing characteristics (my 808 for example sounds
unlike any others I've heard). It seems only recently have synth
designers decided that electronic sounds are acceptable and are designing
instrumants to sound different rather than the same (Nord Lead,
QuasiMidi, Doepfer, and Novation to name a few).
I personally like to think techno is the music of today that should've
been made years ago. The technology was there but most musicians were
using the technology to imitate instruments that already existed. It
would have been more productive to just use the original instrument and
delve into the possibilities of the technology.
Well I'm done preaching now.
-robert
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