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>From: ivancu@...
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>In a message dated 03/24/2000 1:37:59 PM, improv@... writes:
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><< The virtousos that generally come to mind aren't using modulars, and if
>they are, are using them in fairly mundane ways. >>
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>Remember the days of the synthesizer programmers?  There used to be a "sound
>virtuoso" who would get the sounds for the "artist" to play.  They were not
>one and the same.
>
True. And one of things about the modulars is that the line between
programming and playing gets pretty blurry. Most of my favorite patches
jsut kind of play themselves, lots of interacting controllers, LFO's and
sequencers, etc that constantly evolve the sound.

I know some local, very good keyboardists that can play absolute circles
around me, but when they play synths, they tend to just use presets. I've
actually offered to program sounds for a couple of them, but the general
response has been that that is unneccesary. I try to get the point across
that part of developing an individual voice on the synth is developing the
sounds themselves, but the concept just seems foreign to them. So I gave
up, and just develop my own sounds for my own use.


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