mark@apple.UUCP (Mark Lentczner) (09/16/85)
[] 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 "All views are from me or outerspace..." -- --Mark Lentczner Apple Computer UUCP: {nsc, dual, voder, ios}!apple!mark CSNET: mark@Apple.CSNET
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.