[sdiy] presets on a modular

[Harry Bissell Jr]

oh yeah... OH YEAH ???

(then let me be more clear...  :^)

When I say 98% of the "performing world" I mean
the musicians in the fri-sat-sun night bands...

These are me majority (by sales volume for Roland
etc...) and by the number of people who are listening
to them.

(I argue, right now... that the professionals have
already released the CD and their instruments are not
powered on as we speak..)

Yes... they are the wanna-bees. Their crowd are
wanna-bees as well. They don't really CARE about the
music as long as it sounds enough like what they are
comfortable with, and they can get laid...

I'm really not confused. There are innovators who make
new sounds, but the newest of those typically fail in
the mass marketplace... and so do not affect the
Roland
and Yamaha (etc) marketing plans.  The truly sucessful
ones (who cross over a major hit) get their sounds
sampled for the next round of mass market instruments.

Yes, you can go your own way, but for the greater part
you will be going it alone or with a small market of
eclectic consumers...

(Jazz, pure Electronic etc play to niche markets)

H^) harry

--- jbv <jbv.silences at club-internet.fr> wrote:

> 
> 
> Harry,
> 
> Sorry but I totally disagree with that.
> You seem to be confusing the listening audience
> with the audio & music professionals.
> 
> Indeed, professionals don't really want / need new
> gear. Only if it can help them catch a larger part
> of
> the audience (read : sell more CDs).
> For instance, I remember circa 1993 how many folks
> working in recording industry, as well as rock stars
> wannabes, wanted to know what kind of gear Butch Vig
> used in the mix of Nirvana's "Nevermind", as if
> owning
> the same gear would open the doors of worldwide
> success...
> Some kind of magical thinking, not so far from cargo
> cult...
> 
> OTOH the listening audience (music fans in short)
> are much
> more openminded that one could think...
> Remember the hype around "musique concrete" and
> "electro-acoustical" music in the 50's and 60's ?
> And the hype around (many forms) of synth music in
> the
> 70's and 80's ? IMHO the listening audience doesn't
> care
> if it's played with a flute or a synth or a
> bizgotron, as long
> as it's new, hip and catchy...
> 
> But the problem with any musical movement is that
> the
> time of discovery is usually rather short, and very
> soon a
> bunch of "stars" arise from the crowd of "stars
> wannabes"
> and quickly (with the help of the music industry)
> everything
> becomes academic (and boring).
> The various musical trends mentioned above are good
> examples of this fact.
> 
> Cheers,
> JB
> 
> >
> > This is the listening public. They WANT to hear
> the
> > flute, the trumpet, the violin. They don't know
> what
> > they are, maybe... but they know that sound,
> identify
> > with it. Its 'comfort food' for the ears...
> >
> > Roland, Yamaha, and 98% of the perfoeming world
> heard
> > their cries, and responded with appropriate
> products.
> >
> 
>