From Oblique Hostility Sent Mon, Oct 20th 1997, 22:54
From Oblique Hostility Sent Mon, Oct 20th 1997, 22:54
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.