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Originally Posted by Peevy
While you do have a point here it can also be inspirational to play with a number of different synths
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I do agree, but 'getting inspired' and 'producing a composition' have not been one and the same thing in my experience. I'm still looking back at my hardware days when I was so much more productive, both in quantity and in quality.
My last hardware setup consisted of a DX7, DX100, ESQ-1 and a K1rII. Those synths together covered such a wide sonic range that I didn't need anything else (the DX100 was simply expanding the FM-parts as those synths where mono-timbral). It also means I had such a deep understanding of these synths that I could get anything I wanted from them (withing their sonic range of course). I once had a discussion with Robert Jan Stips (of Supersister fame) who was demoing for PPG, that I could get a certain PPG-sound quite closely from a DX7. When I came home from the show I programmed it right away just to prove him wrong (he thought it couldn't be done), took me just about an hour to do it. I must add to this that I actually had formal training in FM-programming (loooooooong ago)
Back in those days I got inspiration from playing with synths I didn't own myself, in shops and on sales-shows. Then when I came back home it was fun AND instructional to try and get those sounds from my own gear.
I'm limiting myself because I really want to get that experience back
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Originally Posted by Peevy
Oh & since you quoted me slightly out of context earlier here it is right back at you with bells on.  |
Aaaaaahhh.... you will burn in hell for that one...