IDM Mailing Archive

At 11:42 25/08/97 -0700, you wrote:

quoted 4 lines argos writes:

>argos writes: >> in other words (just to state the obvious to humourless americans) the >> concepts of 16ths, 32nds, and 'funk' only apply in the cheesy world of midi >> files, elevator muzak and musical car-horns.

quoted 2 lines you are a fool. 16th notes have been around since people started

>you are a fool. 16th notes have been around since people started >notating music on paper.

is THAT so, i must have been REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY fucking stupid not to have heard of them then, mustn't i? i think you missed my point, that anybody who makes music with these rigid quantized rules, never broken, or cannot appreciate the funk in a lot of music not normally called 'funky' (LFO 'probe' comes to mind), is pretty much a deadhead who won't go anywhere.

quoted 3 lines there's two things you can achieve with "sloppy" programming:

>there's two things you can achieve with "sloppy" programming: >1) you can sound engagingly warm and human >2) you can sound like you don't know how to run your gear

quoted 1 line guess which one i think rdj is?

>guess which one i think rdj is?

i won't even bother, because you're just here to take the piss, and act smart cos you've got this big cool studio (that i can replicate on my 400 quid computer) there is more warmth and humanity in any AFX track than all the turd-hop clone zombies in the whole wide world

quoted 3 lines even perfectly quantized midi music is subject to lots of

>even perfectly quantized midi music is subject to lots of >imperfection. midi isn't a magic cureall. unfortunately it dates >from the days when computers were a

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