EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

On a fine day, 08-03-2003, Edmund Eagan wrote:

>On Saturday, March 8, 2003, at 10:58  AM, Hendrik Jan Veenstra wrote:
>
>>  On a fine day, 07-03-2003, Nick Mulder wrote:
>>
>>>  Hi Paul, I own a full-blown Kurzweil K2500RS but use the EXS24 most of
>>>  the time, mainly because of its very tight timing.
>>>
>>>  Which is -as we bozo's all know ofcourse=)- the carrier of the musical
>>>  emotion.
>>
>>  Very tight timing is the carrier of the musical emotion???  Wow, it's
>>  been long since I last heard such a ridulous statement...  Sorry for
>>  being so rude, but what you say here is just too bizarre.  Unless it
>  > was an attempt at humour of course.
>
>Tight timing doesn't mean perfectly quantized. It means that what you
>play in is what the softsynth plays out. In that sense Nick's comment
>has some validity.

Not on my planet it hasn't...  Hell, I've got LPs from the 60ies 
where all musicians manage to miss each other by half a beat or 
something -- which doesn't take away from the emotional content at 
all...  It's just very sloppy playing, but I can live with that if 
the music is good enough.

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Hendrik Jan Veenstra  <h@...>
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