Mark--
My $.02: Use bits and pieces of everything you like to create the music you want and
that (hopefully) others will listen to and enjoy. Use some presets (of which the RM1x
has a surprising amount of good ones), tweak some presets to make them sound new and
different, and create some totally new patches/unique samples on your sampler. SCREW
those people who say everything has to be totally new user created patches. Like
they've never used a (way overused) 808 Kick Drum or 909 Snare before. Yeah,
right!?!?! If you're always spending that much time creating totally unique
samples/patches for each song you write you are too busy doing that to be writing the
songs themselves. Those people are probably just self-centered elitists with too much
time on their hands and probably not much product (songs written) to show for all of
their talk.
--wasted/su700fan
On Fri, 04 Feb 2000 22:51:21 Mark Holloway wrote:
>Hello everyone! I hope you have some words of encouragement here... :)
>
>My equipment I'm currently using: RM1x, AN1x, and I just bought an A3000
>cheap, but haven't started sampling yet.
>
>On other mailing lists I've seen people slam other people for using
>"pre-made" sounds for their music. Now, I do agree that an AN1x with
>128 preset sounds can make life a little boring if every trance artist
>out there used the same voices, but the RM1x has a myriad of voices and
>I love a lot of them! I've started writing some songs using only the
>RM1x for my TG and the AN1x as my control synth. My style is Trance and
>I feel my melodies are unique and I've been able to write songs that
>don't sound manufactured. But should I feel lame for using the sounds
>built in to the RM1x? Not that I plan on using only the RM1x, but
>creating sounds from scratch on the AN1x can be tedious, so I can't
>imagine EVERY song I ever write has to use custom voices only I have
>crerated. Sure, I will tap that sector soon, but for the sake of
>learning my equipment I'm soley using the RM1x. Next will be creating
>custom AN1x voices! I initially bought the RM1x to only use as a
>sequencer [because it was drilled in my head not to use the different
>voices for writing songs] - but screw it, there are some killer sounds!
>I'm not saying they are all great, but what's the point of having them
>if you don't use them?
>
>I guess I see two sides to it:
>
>1) Some people say using pre-made voices sucks. Whatever..
>
>2) I think using the pre-made voices as synergy with custom voices can
>only be a good thing! Am I wrong? I listen to bands like Scooter,
>Lords of Acid, and also to many Trance compilations. To be perfectly
>honest, their sounds/voices are decent, but I wouldn't say they have
>gone to the level of Chemical Brothers unique Bleeps and Blurps. But
>in the end, it's all good. Any comments?
>
>Regards,
>Mark
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