EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Thoughts from the mind of Eli Krantzberg, 20-11-2002:

>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!
>[..etc...]
>And I know way more home studio/midi musicians/engineers who _don't_ 
>have this sort of background than who do.

Okay, okay... you almost sound somewhat offended.  Really, I didn't 
mean any harm.  Was just wondering -- being a mid-80ies keyboardist 
myself :-).  And, I mean, everybody nowadays raves about how great 
Absynth is, and the ES2, and all such gear, which had me thinking 
that all these people are notorious knob-tweakers...  After all, 
these synths have knobs, and if people rave about them, they surely 
have tweaked these knobs...

Well, apparently I'm mistaken...  Okay, learning something new every day...

>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.

Ah...  That's interesting...  And kind of funny, in a way.  I mean, 
here we are, all worrying about CPU cycles, and software updates, and 
the fastest RAM, and USB and Firewire, and ASIO vs DIO, and all sorts 
of technical gibberish that most people would find completely 
unintelligible -- and apparently (almost) everyone here knows what 
we're talking about.  And then it appears that this same sort of 
techno-geek-literacy we all share does _not_ apply when it comes down 
to the instruments we play music with...  I mean, that *is* somewhat 
curious, in a way, isn't it?  Not that it matters that much.  Not at 
all in fact.  Still it's a somewhat curious state of affairs imho.

-- 
Hendrik Jan Veenstra  <h@...>
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