Re: Synths considered harmful (was Re: Using the Wind Synthtocontrol the Repeater)

[Mark Hamburg <mark_hamburg@baymoon.com>]

Given some of the responses, it's clear that I wasn't clear enough.

I was not suggesting that looping synthesizers was somehow worse than
looping other instruments. I was suggesting that from the standpoint of
promoting looping, synthesizers get in the way because the audience
dismisses anything interesting they hear as "being a synth" and that this
spills over to musicians as well looking to broaden their tonal palettes.

There was a story a while back in Guitar Player concerning someone (Leni
Stern?) who saw David Torn play and wondered what guitar synth he was 
using.
The happy ending is that she asked and he told her that no synths were
involved and it was loops plus other processing. How many people don't
bother to ask?

And to put this in perspective, I just bought a Waldorf Microwave XT, so 
I'm
certainly not opposed to synthesizers. I just think that they may be an
issue that needs to be overcome if we wanted to promote a greater public
awareness of looping.

Mark