[sdiy] Control Interfaces (was Wakeman)

[Paul Maddox]

Rainer,

> My personal obsession with "exactness" is that e.g. I'm usually pretty
> disappointed by live recordings since they sometimes sound significantly
> different from what I know from the studio album. And I'm not talking
> about the cheering crowd here :)

Agreed, but it does show what the producers are doing to the music, either
that or that "musicians" cant play anymore..

> In an orchestra, those instruments sound awesome. But played alone it's
> something I don't really like.

so why not start a 'synth' orchestra, four or 5 people and each play only
one part, no sequencers, no patterns, all live.. Its something I have always
thought about.

> The nice thing with polyphonic instruments is that you can more or less
> play an entire arrangement. With a monophonic instrument you need either a
> bunch of people (aka orchestra, band), a sequencer or multi-track recorder
> to achieve the somewhat same.

Most opt for the sequencer and this 'looses' something in the performance,
unless you play every part by hand, something few people do (including
myself).

Paul