[net.music.synth] New Topic: Digital Sequencer Ruminations...

mark@apple.UUCP (Mark Lentczner) (09/16/85)

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Here's some feul for thought:
Why is it that Synthesizer manufacturers always make their digital
sequencers work "just like a n-track tape recorder".  They ever use
it as a selling point.  I would much prefer to use the storage and
abilities of the digital sequencers in ways that I could never do
with a tape recorder.: loops of different things at different lenghts,
with varying speed perhaps, entries and exits that aren't possible
with tape (easily).  I wonder just how wonderful a sequencer could
be if we all just stopped thinking of it as a digital tape machine
and start playing with its special properties and abilities.

Anyone else feel this way about sequencers?  About anything else? I
generally find that I hate being forced to think about new music
equipment in terms of old music equip.  New instruments have new
properties and I want to work with those, not how well they can
emulate old ones (if I need the functions of a tape machine I will
gladly use one , it works very well in this capacity).  Do other
people feel this way?  Can we get synth manufactures to feel this
way?  Am I in outerspace?

-mark lentczner
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gtaylor@astroatc.UUCP (09/17/85)

> I would much prefer to use the storage and
> abilities of the digital sequencers in ways that I could never do
> with a tape recorder.: loops of different things at different lenghts,
> with varying speed perhaps, entries and exits that aren't possible
> with tape (easily).

A busy (unless he thinks he can sell you one on the phone) but nice
guy out in Boston named Emile TObenfield has done precisely that, mostly
because he didn't care for what was out there. For many users, his
sequencer is one wierd bird....lots of real time intervention stuff,
endless loop schemes, etc. RUns on a c64 with a Passport interface.
He advertises in the back of Keyboard as Dr. T., and he's worth checking
out.