When I brought Vangelis and Jarre in this discussion it was more in reference to the type of sounds.Huge hole in this thought, Vangelis used the factory patches on the Yamaha CS-80 almost exclusively for Blade Runner. Obviously the CS-80 is an amazing synth, but you can't really argue that he spent any time at all on programming, or that it's not the ideas he had on playing the patches VS his deep knowledge of programming the CS-80.Right. Patching a synth doesn't make a difference. Vangelis could've scored Blade Runner with a moog sound and it would've been just as impactful.Successful artists pay other people to patch synths for them because they understand that it's trivial shit that, ultimately, won't make a difference.
And what successful artists pay others to patch their synths sounds? Janet Jackson?
Overall, the expressivity (we are about to talk about the dear aftertouch hehe) is only on the volume and opening of the filters for most of the sounds. Maybe rarely on the FM amount but that's it.
Modern music, thanks to the technological progress have much more means to make a sound evolve, through going to a wavetable, applying realtime spectral filters (there are 100 of different types) and so on and so forth (don't get me started on what Zebralette 3 is bringing into the table).
The transformation of sound is something modern genre use and abuse (I am looking at you Dubstep
). And it was just not existing before.Statistics: Posted by Jac459 — Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:21 am