Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

--- In CZsynth@y..., XPANDER <xpander@e...> wrote:
> That's interesting Saso-
> 
> 
> Just the other day I was thinking-...
> 
> Gee- Some of my favorite songs were made on that old gear...so I 
should
> still be able to make great music with that gear.

This is a rather fallacious argument, actually. It's not that we're 
afraid that wouldn't be able to make good music with any gear - 
before I the band was formed, I was an active tracker, doing great 
80's stuff with lots of NordLead samples (having no clue what a 
NordLead is). It's just that we all think that 80's and 70's gear is 
infinitely cooler than the new stuff. It looks better for one thing, 
and it's cheaper, as well.

One could argue that a NordLead (I'm using it as an example because 
it's just about the only modern synth I know well enough) or 
something comparable would in the end be cheaper than all the old 
stuff it would effectively replace, but then again we can't say that 
we did the entire album with only one synth, now can we.

Another thing that we're about is totally artificial sounds - making 
bass that can't possibly be mistaken for a bass guitar. Certainly, 
you can get unrealistic sounds out of new gear, as well, but since 
unrealistic is the ONLY thing you can get out of new gear, that's a 
plus in our book since we don't have to worry if a sound 
is "unrealistic" enough.

Regards,
Saso.

> 
> 
> >> That sounds like religious fanaticism, really.
> > 
> > Oh, by the way, Maxim, I didn't mention the other restriction we 
have
> > imposed upon ourselves: since we do 80's pop, we decided to only
> > use "period gear", i.e. synths and drum machines made before 1990
> > (both analogue and digital, but no ROMplers - but they weren't 
that
> > numerous in those days anyway). I don't know if this one makes any
> > more sense to you than the "synthesis-only" concept, but we like 
to
> > be limited by the gear the way 80's electronic artists were.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Saso.