Sampling sounds or...

[Jim Johnson]

>Man, aren't these people a bunch of idiots?

No, they aren't. Some of them are us. Or some of us are them.

Sampling analog drum sounds will give you results that are virtually
identical to the original sounds. The minor variations in the noise that
occur from one hit to the next are not going to be audible. So you're right
in that regard.

But the business of sampling a minimoog or other synth boils down to the
same thing as sampling any other instrument - trumpet, violin, piano, etc.
A synth is a musical instrument; you can make it sing by playing it
expressively. A sample is a snapshot of a sound - it cannot capture the
expressiveness of a musical instrument. Yes, samplers can be used to add
the expression later - they are musical instruments too - but once again,
it's not the same thing.

And as far as sequencers go - this is a valid objection. If you like the
TR-909 interface and find it to be a critical element to the way you create
drum patterns, then of course building the tracks in Cakewalk will not be
the same. OTOH, many mystical qualities have been attributed to the X0X
boxes which just ain't there...

Final point: People who don't create music the same way you do are not
idiots. They are just different. People who believe in monodirectional
speaker cable, however, _are_ idiots.

Jim Johnson 
Metaphoric Software
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Makers of Techno Toys
Software for Electronic Music
http://www.technotoys.com
info at technotoys.com
 


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On 5/12/98, at 11:33 AM, Lucas Medeiros Reis  wrote: 

>Well, I think here is the only place where I can ask this to somebody.
>
>It's something like that: People say "Don't sample the TR's! Don't sample
>the Mini Moog! Don't sample this! Don't sample that! You have to buy them
if
>you want, because of the 'feeling', the internal sequencer is
different..."
>
>Man, aren't these people a bunch of idiots? They have ears that listen to
>errors where they aren't, they have a lot of analog stuff and keep
annoying
>the ones with Nord Lead and JP-8000... I think that if I sample the
TR-808,
>it will have the same final sound. So does the TB, and Juno, and
MiniMoog...