From el macaco Sent Mon, Dec 24th 2018, 16:49
From el macaco Sent Mon, Dec 24th 2018, 16:49
Practice accompaniment mostly. =20 Organists wanting to make their own rhythms. =20 The CR-8000 is interesting because you have the row of preset patterns that= are just one instrument which can combine with the programmed rhythms. So= it seems set up for someone busy with something else to quickly change the= rhythm details. > On Dec 24, 2018, at 11:42 AM, A. Horton <xxxxxx.xxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> wrote: >=20 > I recently got a CR-8000, and it is absolutely lovely. Along with > other machines I have or love like the TR-77, CR-78, etc. it's > insanely well-designed with the auto-fill functionality, crash cymbal > reserve, etc. > What did the manufacturers really think these were being used for? > What were they designed FOR? Outside of Sly Stone and some more niche > artists, you really didn't hear these things in recorded music. Did > Roland et. al. think that these were being sold purely for practice? > For recordings? For electronic music? For traditional music? For > cocktail acts?