From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2017091622385358057-email@nowherecom...   
      
   >  the ones in my macbook. I can make " new " versions of physical   
   > instruments, or create ones with totally new sounds.  Actually, it annoys   
   > me to no end to use this new capability to mimic old instrument sounds.   
   > It's such a waste. Totally customizable playing feel and sounds. I spent   
   > quite some time customizing the " touch " response of the standard piano   
   > sound I use.  That works out great for me, a guitar player who moved to   
   > keyboards. I don't need, or care about whether it sounds like real piano.   
   > And I REALLY don't care if it feels like one when played.   
      
   Are you saying that you're using a computer to make instrument SOUNDS, but   
   that you still have to make a MIDI connection to an instrument, like a   
   controller, to play them? If so then it's still an instrument, only it uses   
   computer circuits. Other instruments use non computerized circuits, but they   
   ultimately all do the same thing, make Music.   
      
   But what's wrong with 'old' as in Proven instrument sounds that have   
   withstood the test of time?   
   I've heard so-called 'new' sounds and with very few exceptions, they sound   
   like Crap...just silly, novelty created for the purpose of just being weird,   
   rather than something that would become the next classic sound.   
      
   That's one of the main problems with the Yamaha DX7 - it only has some   
   sounds, relatively few, that are actually good enough to justify its   
   existence...the  rest of them sound STUPID, just like the 1980s in which the   
   synth was most used.   
   So it's a challenge for a hippie rock & roller to make good use of a synth   
   designed pretty much for the beginning of the Dumb-Down Zombie era.   
      
   > well, yes.  our " money " has no value in and of itself. it only has value   
   > that all involved agree on.   
      
   Why would ANYone be so Stupid, if not INSANE???   
   I agree that it has no value!   
      
   > no.  She was at our gig today. She did fine. I haven't talked to her   
   > since. When I got home I fell asleep, and so probably did she. I might get   
   > a text later, or if now, we'll talk tomorrow.   
      
   That's awesome!   
      
   > We move the song into whatever key results in the best sound when WE sing   
   > it.   
      
   We do that at church all the time - I get LOTS of practice with transposing   
   on the spot...but what I mean is that when I'm going to be doing the   
   singing, there'll be NO transposing!   
      
   > I'm not the singer on some old record, so why should I sing in their key ?   
   > Should I try to wear clothes of the same size they did also ?  Leaving the   
   > song in some " original " key is something I'd ask .... why ?  Hell, if   
   > I've even been know to retune the instrument or use the transpose function   
   > on my keyboards.   
      
   When it's transposed into another key, it just doesn't sound the same and   
   therefore have the same Vibe as the original - and as for wearing the same   
   kind of clothes as the  artist, I wouldn't know about that unless I'd seen   
   the person, but I DO HEAR THE SOUND and That matters!   
      
   > Enjoy the change.  Old sounds get worn out.   
      
   Jim   
      
   I like variety, and so do audiences, which is why I'm getting into effects   
   )   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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