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-----Original Message-----
From: Bruddah Max [mailto:bruddahmax@...]
Sent: 10 April 2004 04:05
To: Emu XL-7 Yahoo Group
Subject: [xl7] what happened to robpapen.com? also rant on ROMs...


i remember there being demos of the Orbit 3 / Beat Garden there, with
additional TSCY presets for download and all of Rob's various projects (and
his Virus stuff too) but now it seems to just be shilling the Albino
softsynth. is the old site still available somewhere?

i was hoping to get a listen at the Beat Garden presets again, not just the
rather stupid E-mu demo songs. i swear, someone should at some point for
some company write an actual good tune for a demo song, something that says
"yes, an actual song that one might listen to can be made with this product"
versus some keyboardist going all prog-wiggy playing something i can never
hope to even approximate, not that i would want to. this is especially true
of any "dance" demo for any number of products that i have heard. as dance
songs go they are all universally un-danceable. stop with your stupid
instrument progressions and whiz-bang effects sounds and give me twenty
seconds of thumping dance music, you cheerless tone deaf demo programming
bastards!*

of the available ROMs, i've had in some P2K synth or other at some point in
time the following:

Composer (Proteus 2000)
Techno Synth Construction Yard
Xtreme Lead
Ensoniq Project
Protozoa
Pure Phatt
Proteus Pop Collection

of these, the TSCY, Xtreme Lead, and the Proteus Pop collection were the
only ones that struck me as particularly good (and yes i know the Composer
and Proteus Pop ROMs have identical samples - Pop has much better presets,
though, and is more organized). the Ensoniq Project was a major
disappointment, exceeded only by the Pure Phatt, which i find as useless as
a cheese-filled danish (although for the R&B/hip hop crowd i suppose one
could make some ok tunes, but tend to hate that music these days). Protozoa
has the one good bank (the mix first bank) and the rest sounds so very very
dated and hollow that i found them generally unpleasant and lifeless. maybe
i just want more dynamic sounds and actual synthesis than just straight up
"let's play back a sample". so now my question for y'all: which P2K ROM
would you recommend most highly to someone else, and why?

--
Bruddah Max
Lord of the Dance

* if you are one of these cheerless tone deaf demo programming bastards
(CTDDPB), i only say that with the deepest respect and love. really. no,
really.





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