[LAD] Selectable limit for polyphony of virtual synth

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net
Tue Aug 25 16:58:56 UTC 2009


Dennis Schulmeister wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 16:37 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>   
>> Today Zawinul often plays new synth, with the same sounds, but anyway 
>> it sounds disgusting today and he's a good keyboarder, able to 
>> compensate it a little bit, by the kind of playing.
>>     
>
> On a side note: Today Joe Zawinul doesn't play any synthesizer anymore
> as he died two years ago. But you're right in that he was a great
> keyboarder from whom one can learn a lot.

Yes, but the synth he played in the last years were not as fine as the 
oldish synth.

Btw. I only know two keyboard geniuses in terms of playing techniques 
for popular electronic music. Zawinul and Worrell. That does not mean 
that other musicians make less good music or that they are less 
virtuosic, but only those two had and one still has got deep impact to 
popular electronic music playing techniques. Can't find the right words 
on English, e.g. Kraftwerk are not less important, but in another way.



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