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Re: Congratulations to Olivier (smoo) Gerber

2003-06-24 by waveform100

Uuuh! Thank you guys. I would like to thank Grant Richter again for 
his wonderful inspiring System. I am not sure, if I would have ever 
finished the CD without the Wiard.



--- In wiardgroup@yahoogroups.com, "grantrichter2001" <grichter@a...> 
wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> Hearty congratulations to Olivier Gerber for the full page write up 
> of "Traffic in my Soul" on page 32 of the July issue of "Electronic 
> Musician" magazine.
> 
> Even if the Wiard modules had not been used on the recording, I 
> would still be singing the praises of Olivier's amazing production 
> quality and musicianship. I also applaud his integration of real 
> instruments and modern compositing systems. This is very 
> much in the tradition of electronic music stretching back to it's 
> very beginning.
> 
> A big "Thank you" also to Gino Robair for hosting such a 
> delightfully analog oriented article. It always makes me happy 
> when I see EM talking about real instruments and real soulful 
> musicianship as part of current electronic music.
> 
> I realize what an old fuddy-duddy I have become, as I get a slight 
> wave of nausea whenever I read about yet another software 
> "plugin" simulation of a real musical instrument available for the 
> laptop computer.
> 
> As Rex and I like to say "No spit valves in the future of music". 
> The sanitized, ordorless, tasteless, textureless, software 
> simulation of real instruments threatens to replace our soulful 
> reality.
> 
> Which is why it is so heartening to see that soulful reality 
> rewarded with such good press!!
> 
> Congratulations again,
> 
> Grant Richter

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