BigKumquat@aol.com wrote:
quoted 6 lines << I can live with sampling when it's used as an instrumental substitution,>
> << I can live with sampling when it's used as an instrumental substitution,
> no different really than someone using a 303 instead of a trombone.>>
>
> And I suspect that most people on this list listen to more 303 than trombone.
> So the replacement has surpassed the original...in some quarters.
Not capricious on gratuitous substitution, substitution with a purpose.
As when Hrvatski points out that you can get some amazing sounds through
sample teaking and whatnot that you could never get out of trad.
synthesis. Or using a sampler to do loop multitracking, which is why the
Yamaha SU10 keeps looking more attractive to me every day.
quoted 2 lines Are you familiar with collage as a visual art form? It was practiced by> Are you familiar with collage as a visual art form? It was practiced by
> Picasso and other well-known artists.
But good collage has an idea and artistic direction behind it, whereas
the Chembros just take newsprint and spray adhesive to a piece of
posterboard and come up with predictably pedestrian results.
quoted 3 lines While I love the sound of a good Oberheim, I'd take the MPC-3000 material> While I love the sound of a good Oberheim, I'd take the MPC-3000 material
> over the Oberheim material in a second. Without question. But are they
> "mad" monkeys? Or, is Peter Naismith among them?
No, they are new world monkeys equipped with prehensile tails, giving
each of them the ability to manipulate one more slider in real-time than
Autechre can.
Tom