synthesizers

mr dave · 05-11-2009, 01:49 AM

yeah i was taking it on the wrong level with my example. but the idea of tweaking the patches themselves is right. if you leave them at their default settings everyone whose messed around with that piece of software is going to recognize it. don't get me wrong, presets are great and all but if someone else happens to have a hit using that same preset get ready to hear 'oh, you used the same sound as song X' a lot haha.

Freebase Dali · 05-11-2009, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by mr dave

yeah i was taking it on the wrong level with my example. but the idea of tweaking the patches themselves is right. if you leave them at their default settings everyone whose messed around with that piece of software is going to recognize it. don't get me wrong, presets are great and all but if someone else happens to have a hit using that same preset get ready to hear 'oh, you used the same sound as song X' a lot haha.

It's mostly snobbery involved if someone is going to get bent out of shape because someone used a factory patch from a synth. If I'm looking for a Reece or Hoover sound, yea I can build one, or I can use a patch that already produces the sound I'm looking for. The end result is the same.
Complaining about that while overlooking the fact that a lot of people use Reece and Hoover basslines in, for example, electronic music, is contradictory at best.