Hans-Jürgen's Triumvirat - A good example of copying someone else's sound. Fortunately they had talent and wrote a few unique songs.
--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, fdoddy@... wrote:
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> Copying someone else's sound has great educational value, imho. It teaches signal flow, exposes a creative process different than one's own, and is fantastic ear training. I highly recommend copying another's sound whilst in search of one's own.
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> "...something nobody heard before"....is a request I get constantly from my commercial clients...and you get 5 hours to create it. No thank you!
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> Personally, I'd rather create a story than create a signature.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@...>
> To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sun, Aug 8, 2010 10:46 am
> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: New Digital Mellotron
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> Mark Pring wrote:
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> I now wonder if trying to emulate other peoples sounds isreally that satisfying, might be better to come up with somethingnobody has heard before, when my tron is back in action I'm planning tofeed the output through my microkorg or monotron for what I hope willbe some interesting sounds.
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> My thoughts exactly. Why copy someone else's 'signature sound'; whenyou can find your own?
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> Mike
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