Comment by MomsAVoxell
21 days ago
It was said of synthesizers in the early days: “its not ‘real’ music” and its going to be said of every new music technology tool forever, because whenever someone invents a new way of making music, there will be detractors. This is a natural phenomenon of the subject and always will be.
I like your idea of celebrating the repl, its right up there with performance menu diving as a statement for how orthogonal things can get .. I’ve never enjoyed fishing for parameters, so having editor chops applied musically is .. refreshing .. in some strange ways.
Sure wish hardware manufactures would be motivated to not just throw a linked list and a couple of buttons at the parameter issue ..
> It was said of synthesizers in the early days: “its not ‘real’ music”
No it wasn't. Jean-Michel Jarre sold 80 million albums and is one of the most famous musicians of the 20th century.
JMJ happened in the middle of the synth era, not the beginning of it, and his rise to fame definitely heralded a new acceptance of synthesisers as instruments, its true, but there were dark days in the beginning when synths were not considered cool, one bit, and regarded as not real instruments because they were artificially attempting to recreate other instruments .. in the early days.
(Disclaimer: I've been in the MI business for decades, I've seen some things..)