Wiardgroup

I wrote:

>>Even a PAIA 2700 oscillator can be used accurately
with a sequencer, as each note is individually set.<<

>I don't understand that logic.<

A keyboard is essentially a voltage divider and consequently 
requires the oscillator to track accurately. With a sequencer, 
however, you adust the voltage of each stage or key individually. 
That's why even the cheapest oscillator can be used.  From your 
description, it sounded like you weren't using a keyboard with your 
Buchla, but automatic control.

>Konkuro, from your comments about dance music and the Buchla (which 
you've never used) I really don't think you know what you're talking 
about.<

FWIW, I played with Mike Peake's buchla a bit when he brought it to 
my pad.  I stand by my comment about synthesizers like the Buchla 
and Wiard being used (outside of atonal) for techno and dance and 
other sequenced stuff. I'm sure melodic, played-by-a-human stuff is 
out there, but I've yet to hear it.  Still waiting for Switched-On 
Buchla and The Well Tempered Wiard.   :-)  Could be a long wait.

>Unfortunately, Konkuro is right, a lot of people work that way.<

Your post and Les's post were quite interesting.  It would be nice 
if more people worked that way (even nicer if they ditched 
electronic altogether), but schedules don't allow it in most cases. 
It's even more horrifying to consider that we have an entire 
generation that has grown up on canned scores, so they *expect* to 
hear banal, sampled 1-keyboard garbage.  BTW, don't you just love 
how producers will spend millions on a movie, then get a single 
person with a keyboard to produce the "score?"  Drives me nuts.  And 
don't even get me started on all the bad Foley digital synths have 
resulted in!

> In fact, despite his enormous modular synth walls, I'm yet to hear 
a distinctive Hans Zimmer score.<

Window dressing.  But what about his Prince of Egypt score?  That is 
beautiful!

johnm (who can barely read the screen on this L.A. computer)