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- From: gruel@midiline.la.ca.us (Nick Salvatico)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
- Subject: Re: Huge MODs
- Message-ID: <N1D9VB1w165w@midiline.la.ca.us>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 02:37:10 PST
- Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.audio
- Organization: MIDILine BBS - Altadena, CA - (818) 797-3285
- Lines: 77
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- From: crunch@hogbbs.scol.pa.us (Travis Prebble)
- Subject: Re: Huge MODs
-
- > Thanks for being offended.
-
- Sure. No charge either. :)
-
- > I have recently been guilty of uploading to amiga.physik a
- > collection of techno remixes that I cranked out in the past few
- > months, many of which I believe sound quite good.
-
- Okay, fine. There's certainly no need to defend yourself. My
- statements were aimed at the files themselves not you. I'm sure
- I'd like you much better than the MODs. :)
-
- > I admit that it takes very little talent to sit down and chop up a
- > song just to rearrange it and hope it all sounds okay, but this,
- > for me, is the first step to learning how to compose.
-
- Great! Whatever gets ya going. However, I still don't care for
- them. And if others do -- good. You're getting some positive
- feedback which will hopefully keep you going to the point where you
- will be contributing original music. Nothing wrong with that.
-
- > You can gripe all you want,
-
- No, actually I can't, or more precisely, won't -- I do my griping
- once, if at all, and that's usually enough for me.
-
- > However, you *can't* say that this form of music isn't just as
- > difficult.
-
- Of course I can, however, not with any great conviction as I neither
- compose original music nor do remixes as you do. So I won't comment
- either way (and, in fact, didn't in my first remarks either).
-
- > I spend hours getting my samples cut perfectly, selecting which
- > ones will be utilised and which won't. It isn't just a walk in the
- > park.
-
- Again, I'll have to just take your word for it.
-
- > Another comment that I received said, "It's good to see that you're
- > not afraid to use big samples in your mixes, no matter what the guys
- > in c.s.a.audio bitch about. If the bass thumps, that's all that
- > matters!" Which, for techno, is absolutely true.
-
- I always say there's a market for everything, so, do what you want to
- do and as long as you're getting positive comments you can feel free
- to completely ignore mine.
-
- As for large samples -- well, I could care less about the size, but
- I'll always prefer higher quality instrument samples being used to
- make cleaner, clearer original songs over huge chunks of CD tracks.
-
- > Please, this is by no means an introduction to discuss why techno is
- > or is not "music."
-
- No need to worry about me getting into this. Discussing WHY some
- music is "good" or "bad" is TOTALLY pointless, as it's all a matter
- of taste, and as has been proven innumerable times in the past there
- definitely is no use arguing taste.
-
- And, anyway, I do, in fact, like some techno -- the lighter stuff,
- as well as industrial -- don't like hip-hop, hardcore dance/rave, or
- rap though.
-
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