Hendrik Jan Veenstra wrote: > > All sorts of respect for John, but isn't this plain vanilla & rather > obvious old-fashioned synth programming? Or does this remark only > show that I'm getting old and come from a generation who actually > tweaked the knobs they had at their disposal? For people who haven't been eating vanilla their whole life, it's a great exciting flavour! I'm 42 years old and keyboards aren't my first instrument (I'm a drummer mainly and vibraphonist secondly, keyborad player thirdly). Aside from using some old drum machines for live use in the late eighties, I only got into Midi in the early nineties. I missed that whole generation of synth programming in the mid eighties. I didn't come up from that skool. So, while I do "know" about this sort of stuff already, it's not second nature to me. And not knowing it intuitively in my bones, I learn a little something new each time it is explained a little bit differently. I "get it" a little bit more each time. I don't think I'm alone in this sort of situation. I'm a career musican who isn't a keyboard player who came into midi later on. It's mostly, in my experience, real "keyboard" players from the eighties who eat this stuff for breakfast everyday. And I know way more home studio/midi musicians/engineers who _don't_ have this sort of background than who do. Having the EXS has really opened up my understanding of this sort of programming a lot. Seeing it all in one screen really helps me get the bigger picture. I was always lost scrolling through those EG, VDF, Env, WG, TVF, TVA, etc wiondows on the little LCD screens. -- Eli Krantzberg Nightshift Orchestra / Almat Productions http://www.nightshiftorchestra.com
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Re: [exs] Programming tip from John Lehmkuhl
2002-11-20 by Eli Krantzberg