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> I would also agree with the thoughts (rants) on using synthesizers for
> scores, etc.  Many of my clients in the studio ask me to add string
> parts, orchestral parts etc. to their songs.  They all want real
> strings until they find out the cost.  I usually use one of the very
> expensive sample libraries.  Nobody wants synthesizer parts unless
> they cannot be recognized as such.  In many cases these same clients
> are using V-Drums or maybe guitars with a lot of processors.  Somehow
> what they are doing is natural but synthesizers are not.  Many of
> these people do not even consider the synthesizer to be a legitimate
> musical instrument,

It pains me to continue to see this type of behavior as well. I've pointed 
out to people that, for example, a guitar is a synthesizer of sorts. You 
have your oscillator (string pickup), your filter (effects 
processors/boxes), and your amplifier (uh... amplifier). So... pressing a 
note to generate the sound isn't music, but strumming a string is? That 
logic ranks right up there with CD sound rings, drawing on the edges with 
a green felt tipped marker for better sound, and polarized speaker wires.

It's amazing how pervasive this ignorance is. I recall reading (or 
hearing) an interview with Tom Scholz where he openly blasted synthesizer 
music as "not real music", and how their music was "pure". Considering 
also that Scholz is also an engineer and started his own company making 
effects processors, I've lost *ALL* respect for someone who should know 
better. The hypocrocay is amazing. Sheesh. Yet these people also don't 
remember that the electric guitar was considered a bastardization of the 
acoustic, and the piano a bastardization of the harpsichord, etc... I'm 
wondering when people will grow beyond their insecurities enough to accept 
that music is music no matter how it's made.

-->Neil

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