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Am 17.07.2012 10:14, schrieb Terje Winther:
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So you have never played with a jazz guitarist, have you? Just kidding: I have played with one, and even though he sometimes uses chords that I hardly grasp how to do, it is still so many chord notes omitted that at least 6 notes should be plenty.
If you listen to the guys like Lyle mays, Joe Zawinul and Wolfgang Dauner p.ex.,- it\ufffds pretty clear 4 voices being enough if the key assignment modes work correctly and the performer is a good player.
Is all about these guys weren\ufffdt only players but arrangers and had/have knowledge music wise.
There\ufffds Hindemith and so there are the 4 voices ... :-)
These instruments were designed without having sequencer work in mind,- they were made to play and perform.
There were no computers and DAW sequencers available at that time.
I remember touring w/ a Commodore SX64 and a small program Gerhard Lengeling (Notator and Logic mastermind together w/ Chris Adams) coded for a very few early Prophet 5 owners here, just to make sysex data transfer available,- and the sequencer solutions for this computer were, eeehmmm,- extremely basic, buggy and cumbersome.
For the old "pre Xpander" Oberheims, there was nothing than a mono cassette player/recorder, the cassette interfaces in the synths and the only "sequencer" available was the little 8-step sequencer in the 4, 6 and 8 voice models featured by SEM modules and OBX as well as OBXa were cassette interface only synths too.
Also OB-8 and until the MIDI retrofit came.
There was some kind of a larger digital sequencer early made by Oberheim, but I\ufffdm not sure it worked well or not,- I think the very 1st affordable and usable digital sequencer from Oberheim was the DSX for the digital bus of the OB-8 and after the drum machine DMX was out.
Also this was an answer to a Yamaha system,- QX-1 & TX-816 plus DX7 as the (programmer) controller and a RX (?) drum machine,- this before the Yammi masterkeyboards (KX88/76) came,- a system I own up today.
Indeed! Amazing how even two "not-so-good" polysynths can sound very good if you layer sounds on them. Do this on good polysynths, and it is hard not to put a smile on your face when playing.
IMO, Xpander layered /midied to DX-7 sounds KILLER !
I\ufffdve seen a studio session artist in munich mid 80th doing ALL studio sessions w/ this rig and without any 8-Bit sampler.
He was very busy nearly all day and made crazy income !!!
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