Re: piano (Breed)

>>Maybe for runs. But ask yourself why nobody plays Rachmaninov on a synth.
>
>Yes. Rachmaminov wrote for a particular instrument, so you wouldn't expect
>the music to transfer to another one. I keep asking myself why people still
>play Bach on a piano, and "conservatism" seems to be the answer.

I'm no Rach fan, BTW. I know people who want my head for this, but with
few exceptions (perhaps the Toccatas and Goldbergs), I prefer Bach on the
piano. It has a lot more phrasing power than the harpsichord, if you know
how to play it (not that I do).

>>There's more to speed than runs. Repetition is the most important place to
>>have speed, and the piano has got everything else beat by a mile.
>
>Rubbish. Sequencers are the thing. Record once, loop it, double the
>tempo...

Now there's a recipe for musical results!

>Sure. Regardless of the keyboards, though, there are some places where
>synths have the upper hand. One is that it's much easier to retune a synth.
>This is the killer for me.

For me too.

>Another is that you can get a higher variety of sounds from a synth.

That all depends. In theory? Yes. Have I heard it? No.

>Only playing one voice at a time as if it were an acoustic instrument
isn't >showing it in its best light.

Multitracking is cool for anything. Let's talk instruments, that is, what
one person can do in real time.

>For that matter, using the preset voices doesn't give me what I want.

I've been synthesizing since I was in the 5th grade (ESQ-1). I've never
been able to come up with anything good for much more than shock value. I
had a chance to play a bit with a GDS synergy (used by Wendy Carlos on
Digital Moonscapes), and it was one exception. DM is my pick for best
synthesis ever, BTW.

>I'm not much interested in a synth that sounds like any particular acoustic
>instrument.

Nor am I. But I do want one at least as powerful.

>If you don't like the sound, try sending it through guitar effects.

Maybe the best keyboard sound I've ever got was with Pagano's Baldwin organ
and a MuTron phasor...

C.

Carl
I knew I liked you.
You are going to poop your tet pants when you here the new record.
we got a full Baldwin "Dronosonic" with leslie etc. all in Lambdoma Freqs
cheers
Pat

> Maybe the best keyboard sound I've ever got was with Pagano's Baldwin organ
> and a MuTron phasor...
>
> C.
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