On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 08:37:00AM -0600, Steve D wrote: > > Thank you Thorsten-- Believe it or not, I chose the old fat saw-wave > synthesizer sound *because* it sounded cheesy. ;-) It's a way of poking > fun at my own music and at production in general. Having the same > thought as you, I tried several jazz organ and a variety of great flute > sounds before choosing the cheesy current lead voice. Interesting. > The other lead > voice is cheesy too, a stratocaster guitar sound with *way* overdone > delay, phaser, chorus and equalization (so 80s). I don't think that one is cheesy. To me it's a nice, full, warm sound, working very well in its context. Well, ok a bit less phasing/chorus might have done it, too :) > That said, I believe "music" is in the ear of the creator and listener, > to convert the "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" quote to a > different purpose. I personally feel that music is *any* sound that its > creator likes or enjoys, from clicking sticks together while walking > through the woods in cadence to them, to the most elaborately > structured, harmonically or melodically or rhythmically complex sounds > he or she can come up with. And good music should be able to stand on > its own, *apart* from any production that may give it a superficial > polish and gleam. The beauty and impressive nature of Rachmaninov's > harmonies and melodies would remain even if they were played on toy > pianos, steel drums, etc. (although they sound better with piano and > orchestra ;-) > > I guess what I mean is that the music itself, to me, matters more than > the production of that music. If I can be pleased with my music > *despite* cheesy sounds, bad production and inexpert mixing, then that > means (to me) that the music itself is OK. ;-) Yes, especialy great harmonies and melodies can work with varying instrumentation and work their magic even with realy bad ones. But in some cases the sound _is_ the music. Some sequences only work with matching sounds and are meaningless without (not that it would be the case here). Personaly, I don't see the choice of patches/sounds as part of the production ... or rather it's inbetween composition/generation and production. > Sorry for the "philosophical digression." ;-) NP ;-) --- Thorsten Wilms
