I did some of my most inspiring work on a Roland W30, with just 14 seconds of sample time. It made you think more about your music and how to achieve it. Now we have zillions of samples, unlimited sample time, yet I actually find it harder to compose now than I did back then!
I also had the Roland W30! The design was so clean and beautiful. The white and silver synths of the 90s looked cheap. I also had to plan carefully with limited memory and polyphony but that made it all more creative! Loading samples from the floppy discs brought such expectations like waiting for Christmas. Nowadays, all is instant gratification for better and worse. While technology has progressed, it is doubtful if music has. But that has been going on since Bach. I don't understand the need for high technical specifications when the music itself has questionable quality. I confess I'm old school and obsolete...
reading this and listening to this incredible demo drove me to emotion... Very wonderfully said... Couldn't be anymore true... I miss those days as well. Now the world has gone and gotten itself in a big hurry. No one can even so much as wave and say hello... Saddening. Now people today would rather text than just pick up the phone and call.
Yes all on the E II. I was fortunate enough to own one of these machines along with an Otari MTR90 24 track 2 inch recorder... My EII sound library was vast and achieving something like this was not hard at all.
I have an EII in storage in NC. Whilst I've played around with the sounds, I don't the sequencer would be strong enough to generate a full song with the memory capacity unless you multitracked it (layered) on a separate tape recorder and played along with it like Depeche Mode did back in the day, right?
"I can't make music without a 40GB orchestral library at 192KHz sample rate"
I did some of my most inspiring work on a Roland W30, with just 14 seconds of sample time. It made you think more about your music and how to achieve it. Now we have zillions of samples, unlimited sample time, yet I actually find it harder to compose now than I did back then!
I also had the Roland W30! The design was so clean and beautiful. The white and silver synths of the 90s looked cheap. I also had to plan carefully with limited memory and polyphony but that made it all more creative! Loading samples from the floppy discs brought such expectations like waiting for Christmas. Nowadays, all is instant gratification for better and worse.
While technology has progressed, it is doubtful if music has.
But that has been going on since Bach. I don't understand the need for high technical specifications when the music itself has questionable quality. I confess I'm old school and obsolete...
reading this and listening to this incredible demo drove me to emotion... Very wonderfully said... Couldn't be anymore true... I miss those days as well. Now the world has gone and gotten itself in a big hurry. No one can even so much as wave and say hello... Saddening. Now people today would rather text than just pick up the phone and call.
Thanks for uploading all these EII demo tracks. Great stuff.
I remember this rain forest sample from almost 30 years ago...
Fantastic concerto, just perfect !
QUE LINDO QUE SE ESCUCHAN LAS COTORRITAS AL PRINCIPIO ...
beautifully stated.
The best synth🥰🥰
This must be one of those Eddy Jobson/Constance Demby hybrids I've heard so much about.
Yes all on the E II. I was fortunate enough to own one of these machines along with an Otari MTR90 24 track 2 inch recorder... My EII sound library was vast and achieving something like this was not hard at all.
THERES TO MUCH INFORMATION NOWADAYS ...
I recognize the bird samples from Dead Can Dance's "Bird"
Think it's a loon.
I have an EII in storage in NC. Whilst I've played around with the sounds, I don't the sequencer would be strong enough to generate a full song with the memory capacity unless you multitracked it (layered) on a separate tape recorder and played along with it like Depeche Mode did back in the day, right?