eml synthesizers

> >
> >While it's possible to drive samples somehow, it's incredibly
> >improbable someone would use a Control Voltage based
> >sequencer to conntrol samples. Let alone risk doing so

reliably

> >in a live context.
> >
> >Also wouldn't you think EML would have used the fact PF

used

> >their gear for their marketing somewhere sometime if it was
> >used on any kind of regular basis?
> >
> >There just has to be more of a mistake than just the sampling
> >one. Like that gear belongs to an openning act, or someone
> >thought that pic was cool, kept it and then years later guessed
> >it came from a PF gig.
> >
>
>
> I was just trying to conjure up some idea of a way the

sequencer could

> conceivably be used in conjunction with samples. But it's really

of another

> era, there would be better ways. Have to doubt that caption.

Yes, it's something an experimenter might think about, it's not
beyond possibility but really no one does that sort of thing on a
commercial tour.

>
> I'm skeptical that PF ever used that gear, but I wouldn't be

surprized to

> learn that they did , Even if they just tried it out. I seem to recall
> reading that Frank Zappa played around with a 101 too but the

company never

> capitalized on that either. (Altho my recollection is that Zappa

wasn't

> very complimentary of it....)

Well thats sort off why. Also now that I think about it if someone
on the artist's side thinks it looks like an endorsement they might
demand something in return. On the other hand if someone
uses visible gear live word does get out.

Which of course brings up that for example Zappa was a well
known Emu user . EMS use is well documented in the 70s. (Pink
Floyd, Eno, Schulze, Jarre, etc.).

What other pre-1990s users of EML were there who are well
documented ? The only ones I ever hear are Pere Ubu and Devo.
Why, if it's true that it wasn't known PF were using them before
that site.