On Tue, 19 Jun 2018 21:56:26 -1000, david wrote: >Sometimes I think the whole purpose of DAWs and VSTs and synths is to >make it possible for someone sitting at home with no budget to write >for whole symphony orchestras *and hear something like it* without >spending the large amount of money needed to have an orchestra >actually perform a piece. > >Being such a person, I'm not complaining. ;) You also could be e.g. a keyboard who owns a house, a real Hammond with Leslie, a real grand piano, a real Rhodes, a real D6, 20 Moogs, Oberheims and Co. in flight cases and a Mellotron. If you need all those sounds for a gig, would you like to transport all those real things, excepted of the house? Btw. I'm a disgusting bad keyboarder, while there are some instruments unsuitable to be played by even the latest Roland guitar synth, playing a rock organ works quite good and this in two different ways, it's possible to play it by guitar in an organist's way or to play the organ sound in a guitarist's kind of style. Keep in mind, I'm a fan of real Curtis CEM based analog synth as well as I like real non-analog iconic synth, such as the real old DX7 or the TG33 with it's vector control. With modern emulations you can't get all those original sounds, it at least does feel different when playing those beasts live, compared to virtual synth, OTOH emulations become better and better. Arturia and Nord are amazing PC/tablet PC synth and/or stand alone hardware synth. At the moment I usually prefer latest emulations over original synth. Not all oldish analog synth provide the nice controls mentioned by robertlazarski. I own an Oberheim Matrix-1000, it only provides MIDI IOs and an audio output and the only potentiometer is to control the volume. A lot of people replaced a lot of analog synth with a few Oberheim Matrix-1000 in the end of the 80s, just using the factory presets, without a MIDI controller. Nowadays a lot of those sounds are provided by soft synth, too. It's just not true that even experimental music requires all kinds of controls. Most important is to get a lot of basic sounds. For one or the other speical experimental sound, it could be enough to use one or two real old synth, but the 20 other synth could be replaced by something like the Oberheim Matrix-1000 in the past and today a lot of those sounds could be replaced by e.g. a Nord, not all of those sounds, but OTOH a Nord provides sounds a Matrix-1000 doesn't provide. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
