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#150022 - 02/01/04 08:36 AM
Re: Sax on the 2000
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Registered: 12/08/02
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DJ, Gotta' agree with Dave--You should use the pitch bend to tweak this one. However, the sweet tenor sax on the 2000 is probably the best I've ever heard on any keyboard, and the growl sax is exceptional. Will Stewart uses the sweet saprano sax a lot and his midi files are second to none. In my case, everyone says the sweet tenor sax sounds so realistic that if they close their eyes during a perfmance they would never know the sound was coming from a keyboard.
Cheers,
Gary
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#150029 - 02/01/04 06:28 PM
Re: Sax on the 2000
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"All the sax players died 25 or 30 years ago when ya'll started soloing." Ladies and gentlemen, lets all now bow our heads for a moment of silence. While you were not looking, Boo apparently passed away. We'll miss you Boo baby! Been to New Orleans a half dozen times when I was a lot younger, and yes they had lots of great sax players then, and some who were really bad. As Don said, "we don't have to "fool" sax players, we are entertaining the audience." Cheers, Gary
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#150037 - 02/02/04 09:35 AM
Re: Sax on the 2000
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Chris raises some good points, and having used sounds from soft libraries that are much larger sample wise than what is made available on any of our keyboards, I will agree with him to a point.
I still think it's pretty difficult to pull it off, meaning have it sound so realistic that noone can tell, without alternate controllers and employing some form of physical modeling. This can be important when one is creating something in a studio and looking to emulate an expressive instrument closely. On the other hand, when we are talking about using an arranger to entertain, it's pretty obvious to almost anyone in our audience that there isn't really a sax player there, so it's realy not about trying to fool anyone is it ?
Having the best sounds you can have is certainly a plus, but I don't necessarily need to bring along a physically modeled, breathe controlled sax, because pretty much everyone is going to understand that the breathe control apparatus is not really a sax.
It did, however, make quite a few people curious when I hooked it up to the Motif and played through it. None more so than my guitarist the first time I played it with him.
Another thing to look at is how much this continues to change and how far it's come since the early days of what could be considered "affordable" synths, meaning, the average musician could afford to buy one. I'm talking around the end of the 70's .. the CS80 era ( it wasn't really affordable, but what followed it was ). We've really seen a lot in 20-25 years or so, yet ironically, I see ( and enjoy ) a huge effort to reproduce the classic synths of that era
When analog synths finally began to incorporate the use of presets, often they were called things like, "brass" or "Flute", etc. Obviously, these weren't going to fool anyone, but many of those sounds have become classics in their own right, and a lot of effort is spent today trying to reproduce them digitally. I look to incorpate more of this stuff into my own music, without necessarily trying to makeevery piece become "electronica"
AJ
[This message has been edited by Bluezplayer (edited 02-02-2004).]
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