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Subject: "classic" synths? will new ones...
Original Message 1/25 03-Dec-03 @ 10:23 PM - ever be considered?
synths like the xpander, OB series, Matrix, Jupiter6/8, MiniMoog, Prophet5, etc...
back 'then" they had character, defining "voices"...
wondering about the current crop...just a ton of VAs mostly, that sometimes dont sound all that distinctive...
do you think in 10-20 years any of these new synths will "matter"?
Message 2/25 04-Dec-03 @ 10:31 AM Edit: 04-Dec-03 | 10:32 AM - RE:
I wonder if 15 years from now people'll be arguing on the internet whether the VA's with shittier internal resolution and convertors have more 'character'?
Message 4/25 04-Dec-03 @ 03:19 PM - RE:
my 2 cents.
-Craig
Message 5/25 04-Dec-03 @ 04:58 PM - RE:
I think that says something...things being just cranked out...
but...maybe if I had asked this in 1985 the responses would have been the same?
"nah, the jupiter8 is too buggy...no one will remember it"?
Message 6/25 04-Dec-03 @ 05:31 PM - RE:
Message 7/25 04-Dec-03 @ 06:24 PM Edit: 04-Dec-03 | 06:27 PM - RE:
do you think in 10-20 years any of these new synths will "matter"?
no, i think they'll be superceeded by newer even better va's. like erm... access virus X, waldorf Q+++, and novation Supernova10?
only exciting thing i can think of right now is, if people like xoxos and the synthmaker crew manage to find a way to make all the weird synthesis/effect technologies as usable and accessible to the average user as an average va is, or like the aforementioned microwave xt and fs1r. then i'd be all about those types of synthesis instead of just dipping my toes in the water now and then
Message 8/25 04-Dec-03 @ 06:25 PM - RE:
Message 9/25 04-Dec-03 @ 07:31 PM - RE:
I say the Nord Lead will be a classic 20 years from now because it has a soul, like the classic instruments do. This is less apparent to Nord Rack users, but when you grab a Nord Lead keyboard and play it, you feel it. The action of the board, the way the pitchstick and modwheel feel under your hands, how the synth's sound reacts to the dynamics of playing and programming...
For me as a guitar player, it's like what I feel when I pick up an old Strat - it's got that something that makes you connect with the instrument and the music you make on it.
The Virus, on the other hand, is a fantastic sounding tool, and it's got all the features you'd want, but it doesn't quite have the moxy.
People pick the classics in an irrational way in general.. Does a '58 Strat stay in tune when I dive bomb the trem? Does a mini go out of tune when you drive to the gig in the cold? Sure, but nobody cares because they have that something.
Message 10/25 04-Dec-03 @ 08:06 PM - RE:
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