Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

I agree with you that live ambience through a good system is the 
ultimate listening pleasure.  I respect portable MP3 players and all 
portable devices.  

Me?  I'm old fashioned.  When I toured in the 80's I never left home 
without my Sony Pro-Walkman cassette recorder/player w/headphones.  
We were told to use headphones traveling in a motorhome to give 
others privacy who were trying to sleep.  Others had various tastes 
in music and didn't care to hear music they didn't like.

Twenty years later, its so common to see people walking, jogging or 
whatever w/headphones on, no one gives it a second thought.

Today, at 51, I no longer travel.  Just play locally.  Have no 
interest in iPods or other portables.  Nothing against them, in fact 
I think they're pretty cool.  Just don't need them.  

Recording engineers in larger studios mix under controlled studio 
environments for the "average system" by the average user.  Guessing 
they hope it sounds good on an iPod, but there's no way of knowing 
who listens with what device.  

Perhaps someone on this group knows of a survey taken that indicates 
demographics of listeners habits, devices, etc.?

--- In Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com, "tekoband2006" <tekoband@...> 
wrote:
>
> Greetings All….
> 
> This is somewhat "off-topic" so if the moderator feels it is 
> inappropriate; obviously he is welcome to remove it. However, since 
a 
> number of us use our Ensoniq keyboards (I have a VFX-SD & SD-1) in 
> the production of our music and certainly with the intent for some 
> manner of public airing, I was interested if there were others 
among 
> us who had thoughts with regard to the quality of the airing your 
> music was receiving - given today's technology.
> 
> I have been thinking about people's listening habits when it comes 
to 
> music over the past couple of years. Other than "live" of course, 
it 
> seems most people these days listen to their music on portable 
> devices. And although the listening quality of some of these 
devices 
> is good….nothing can touch listening to music on good amplified 
> playback systems in a reasonably sized area under ambient 
conditions. 
> Only then can the dynamics and richness of the music be absorbed 
and 
> enjoyed by the listener. Only then can the true intent of your 
> productions and arrangements be heard as it was intended. And I 
> personally think that is even more important when it comes to music 
> produced with synthesizers and the like.
> 
> I have made the music I have produced with my synthesizers and 
> associated equipment available from time to time for downloading 
from 
> the Internet like many of you have also done. But I am reaching a 
> point where I feel I no longer am going to do that because I feel 
the 
> work I have put in to the mixing and dynamics of the arrangements 
of 
> my music is never being heard as it was intended. And under those 
> conditions, I would just as soon it not be heard at all. At best, 
> most music that is downloaded like that usually doesn't make it 
past 
> the downloader's computer sound system anyway I would guess. And if 
> one does eventually put it on a CD so that they can play it as it 
was 
> intended, they have to have the software and knowledge to do so. 
> 
> I often wonder how recording and production engineers these days 
> actually feel about this subject. Assuming a bit of their heart and 
> soul goes into their productions, don't they feel cheated to some 
> degree because their music is not being listened to as intended?
> 
> Other thoughts.....???
>