SergeModular

Hi people,

well for my own part, I am moving away from computers and computer based techniques. Or I should say I just keep them to a minimum. (And mind you, I am a computer programmer, so go figure)

As John suggested there's just too much information in sequencers and such programs. By the time you boot the program it makes you feel like an idiot because there's 1000 different things you can do and you don't have a clue as how to do them. However, same thing is true with a Serge comprising 10 panels. It could be so intidimating and frightening that you might as well discard the idea of making anything musical out of it.

I think however, that both of these concepts, miss the point. I have come to realize that the method and tools you choose for composing dictate how you play to a far greater degree than we think. Oftentimes, you start with a VCO and then VCF and then VCA and then add more modules till the actual sound becomes composition by itself. This can never happen with acoustic instruments, where you can never really get away from the sound per se.

I don't want to waste so much time reading thousands of pages in pdfs that come with sequencers and plugins. Just because I can do something doesn't mean I should. It pisses me off when programs don't work, drivers don't work, MIDI doesn't work. There are just too many problems and by the time you try to deal with them, the creative process is gone. So I am simplifying things.

I use an extremely low-cost digital, pocket recorder from Sony. It's supposed to be for journalists... lol... It records in 8-bit quality I think but it's very easy for me to put it close to a headphone (lol not even speakers because there's a whole process in switching on the studio) and capture the idea as roughly as possible. I have a lot of compositions recorded in tapes from a SANYO deck (aren't you laughing yet??) and many times I thought of transfering them little by little in Cubase and stuff, but I just discarded the idea. I kept recording there, and my ideas become better, my compositions were developed more, the sounds I made were reaching a point sending shivers. To cut a long story short I always thought that technique, compositions, programming, you name it, can become infinitely better where limitations exist.

Oh I suppose I would have to hire someone to do the Cubase stuff for me. lol

Later

Yannis

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