From Tom Millar Sent Thu, Jun 10th 1999, 00:29
From Tom Millar Sent Thu, Jun 10th 1999, 00:29
xxxxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx wrote: > > << I can live with sampling when it's used as an instrumental substitution, > no different really than someone using a 303 instead of a trombone.>> > > And I suspect that most people on this list listen to more 303 than trombone. > So the replacement has surpassed the original...in some quarters. Not capricious on gratuitous substitution, substitution with a purpose. As when Hrvatski points out that you can get some amazing sounds through sample teaking and whatnot that you could never get out of trad. synthesis. Or using a sampler to do loop multitracking, which is why the Yamaha SU10 keeps looking more attractive to me every day. > Are you familiar with collage as a visual art form? It was practiced by > Picasso and other well-known artists. But good collage has an idea and artistic direction behind it, whereas the Chembros just take newsprint and spray adhesive to a piece of posterboard and come up with predictably pedestrian results. > While I love the sound of a good Oberheim, I'd take the MPC-3000 material > over the Oberheim material in a second. Without question. But are they > "mad" monkeys? Or, is Peter Naismith among them? No, they are new world monkeys equipped with prehensile tails, giving each of them the ability to manipulate one more slider in real-time than Autechre can. Tom