From: "PinheadX" <
pinheadx@...>
> >If you are
> > really picky you could say that Germany did it first,
> > namely "Kraftwerk" with their mechanic machine music.
>
> I thought to say that, but I was unsure....IMHO the best Techno style came
> from Belgium...
New Beat?
And then there's Gabber... Rotterdam hardcore house.
> > What makes me wonder is, why these three big companies Korg, Roland,
> > Yamaha are japanese and not don´t know...It is like Japanese have
> > almost the development of modern music in their hand...hmmmm a
> > conspiracy? Maybe my AN1x is constantly sending out a sub-
> > consciousess message: "...Buy more japanese products..."
Music is more than just synths, of course. Keep in mind that Roland make
electronic organs as well, and that Yamaha is the largest manufacturer of
musical instruments in the world, whether accoustic or electronic.
But I don't think that the ∗development∗ of synths is something Japanese.
Roland, for instance, doesn't really innovate: they just improve on what
others do, and sell it for an appropiate price. (The engine of the XV5080 is
eight years old already.) Korg is pretty innovative (the spin-offs of their
OASYS keyboard, like the Prophecy, Trinity and Z1); Yamaha is even more
innovative.
Kurzweil, which is American despite the German sounding name, does little to
innovate. Their VAST engine is quite old by now, even though their stuff is
top-end, and even more expensive than Roland.
But really new and exciting stuff seems to come mainly from the UK
(Novation), Germany (Access, the late Quasimidi, Creamware), and Sweden
(Clavia, Elektron). Most of it seems to focus on analogue modelling, though.
I probably forgot a lot, and I didn't include all the soft-synths -
primarily because I'm not particulary interested in those.
> ...And I surely would do that, but there's no more ANs to buy. To my taste
> Germans, make some great pieces of gear. My next goal is to buy a
> Polymorph...but it's to far from now..:-(
Quasimidi? Didn't they fold up their business? Perhaps you could get the
last Polymorph as well... but be quick about it.
- Peter