EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

On Saturday, March 8, 2003, at 11:45  AM, Hendrik Jan Veenstra wrote:

> 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.

I agree with the last half of your paragraph, but Nick still had a 
valid point. Just because a musician misses by half a beat doesn't mean 
that was not their musical intention. It's up to the musician to 
decide, not inaccurate time-stamping by a computer. THAT was his point.
>
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Edmund Eagan
www.twelfthroot.com