Comment by otabdeveloper4
20 days ago
> 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.
20 days ago
> 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..)