Just remember how many people seem to be perfectly happy with a keyboard
that has only one patch, no volume or tone controls to speak of, and a
somewhat slow action: a piano! Yet, some awesome music has been written and
composed with only that sound - listen to Au Clair de Lune by Debussy (well
performed on a decent piano) with the lights off one night when you are on
your own, and you will know exactly what this means.
I personally think that the RM1x has about the best collection of factory
patches I've yet heard - individual sounds from other synths are often more
impressive on their own, but the RM1x patches sound very good in a mix. It
is always worth remembering that in a mix it is often the smallest, most
innocuous sounds that work the best.
Sarah
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wasted [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 06 February 2000 20:44
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Writing Music
>
>
> 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.
