Hello Ardith,

On Sat 2039-Mar-26 23:52, Ardith Hinton (1:153/716) wrote to James Bradley:

AH>           I always wanted a little brother & I understand teasing
AH> Sis goes with the territory, but I'm glad to see you & Richard
AH> exchanging messages.  :-) 

YEp, we've chatted in live_audio and a couple of other
places too .


AH>           Yes, that would work.  But Richard also brought up an
AH> important point which I almost missed until I'd made some further
AH> enquiries.  Serious musicians who do keyboards professionally are in
AH> a very different category from the "play by numbers" crowd.  They
AH> tend to use the Hammond B3 whereas Grandma Potts would use a Hammond
AH> "S" series chord organ or something similar... i.e. probably what
AH> the majority of non-musicians think of as an "organ" nowadays. 


YEp, and I get so frustrated with their limitations.  That
was my beef with the first pattern based drum boxes, so
limiting.  I used them as beat boxes on one man shows
occasionally, but then a guy turned me onto midi when I was
working on a band's project in his studio.  I had a little
windfall from that project and another, and he'd been trying to get me to join
the midi world for a long time.  THis was
back in the early '90's btw.  HE sat me down in his control
room with a good 76 key keyboard controller, an Alesis mmt-8 sequencer and An
Alesis drum module and another couple of
midi modules in a rack.
I ended up spending about $3k by the time I left his shop
that afternoon .

sInce then I"ve used the midi automation with synthesizers
etc. to do entire music beds for some jingles and other
projects.  OFten I'd do midi drums, percussion then replace
the trap drums with an actual drummer, or bring in musicians for extra parts
such as guitars, and of course vocals
.

AH> Richard needn't worry about being replaced by electronic
AH> substitutes, but many people seem to believe any fool can play
AH> keyboards or sing or play drums or whatever.  I'm inclined to think
AH> the author of these jokes is taking a sly dig at wannabe musicians. 
AH> :-)) 

OH yeah, lots of those.  I've seen a lot of those, from
various points of view.  I'm sure you both noted mine that I found elsewhere
on the lady wanting the wedding reception
band .  That was my biggest problem with the midi
thing live, people treat it in the same manner they would
hiring a dj for karaoke night or something.  tHey don't
realize that getting a midi repertoir of a bunch of popular
tunes arranged for your voice etc. is a pretty good sized
endeavor.
I may not hire a horn section or bass player at $45/hour to
play on your music bed for your jingle, but I'll spend an 8
hour day on your 30 second jingle with donut, etc.
Back in the mid to late nineties back in the midwest I did a lot of arranging
for songwriter demos too.




Regards,
           Richard
--- timEd 1.10.y2k+
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