The Logic Off Topic list

From: Tony Thompson <tony@...>
>Hendrik Jan Veenstra wrote:
>  > Slightly (un)related... something I've been wondering about a lot.
>  > Why is it that 99% of all VST synths seem to be emulations of really
>  > old gear?  Hammond B4, mellotron, Rhodes piano, Clavinet, old digital
>  > gear like the PPG Wave, an endless array of analog synths, etc -- the
>  > list goes on ad infinitum.
>
>I hear what you're saying here, HJ, but many of these sounds have had an
>appeal which is more than just nostalgia.

I know -- like I said, coming from the 70ies myself, I know all about 
drooling over photos of Moog Modular systems, the love for Hammonds, 
Mellotrons and the like.  It's just that there's been so many more 
interesting instruments since then...  And what do we seem to want? 
Mini Moogs and analog step sequencers...

>even more often to quirks of sound due to the hardware limitations 
>of the time (hence the to me unfathomable interest in Mellotrons, 
>which I can't really get into at all).

:-)  There's something about a melltron that no symphony orchestra 
has.  An absolutely wonderful sound.  I'm not sure I would seriously 
use it myself though, nowadays.  That's probably my whole point...

>I don't think subtractive synthesis is such a big deal as other 
>people obviously do.

It's the only synthesis model I truly understand :-).  I grasp the 
idea behind others of course, but I've been exposed to subtractive 
synthesis long enough to have it down to being sort of second nature. 
But hey, that's just my limitation...

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Hendrik Jan Veenstra  <h@...>
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