(idm) QY10

From phlux
Sent Mon, Oct 20th 1997, 23:16

On 10/20/97 16:53:53 you wrote:
>
>On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Mark Kolmar wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Simon Walley wrote:
>> 
>> > I can't wait for the day when someone writes some astounding IDM using a
>> > cheap GM module.
>> 
>> Check into the first half-dozen or so releases on Axis, esp. the ones
>> where Robert Hood was involved.  OK, the tracks are not all like that, and
>> it might fall outside a given person's definition of IDM.  But just the
>> same, plenty of the sounds could have come from a cheap GM box.  It's not
>> the sounds that would draw you in, but the way they are used.
>> 
>Not a GM module precisely, but a Yamaha QY20, which is a combination
>sound source/sequencer which is about as big as a VHS video cassette.
>"Nighttime World" has sounds from the mighty QY on nearly every track.


Funny you should mention that but a friend of mine also clames that 
Jeff Mills uses a QY10 preset synth loop in one of his tracks.....hmm

ROB

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