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Michel Geiss kennen we allemaal als de rechterhand van Jean Michel Jarre, er is een interview met hem te vinden op www.jarre.cl en daarin vertelt hij zijn mening over software vs hardware synths, hier is een stukje quote :
Let's talk about one of your passions: Synths. You are a well-recognized lover of some "classic" machines, ARP2600 for example. What do you think about software synths?
"Software synths are often fantastic. I even have a partnership with a french company, Arturia, who developed a software version of the Moog Modular (I have my photo on the box !), approved by Bob Moog himself!Later, they released the virtual CS-80 and Mini Moog machines, and they proved that computers can do an excellent job simulating the sound of old machines. Well... but sound is not the only thing. A computer will never be the same as a real instrument, with its special shape, with its knobs, buttons, all things which make it a kind of personality in front of you, with which you deal, from which you get direct reactions from your gestures. For example, I remember when working on Equinox very late in the night, in a semi-consciousness, finding interesting ideas, which I am sure would have not surfaced if a computer had been involved. It has been said many times : there cannot be a direct relationship between a musician and a computer, through a mouse. Hardware controllers are better than nothing, but they are perceived by your mind as a separate entity.Software synths and hardware machines are quite different things, and cannot do the same thing. To tell you my deep thoughts, I'm a bit sad seing that less and less real instruments are being made today. The software industry flooded the synthesizer manufacturers with cheap and excellent products, but there is a risk. We can come to a point of no return, when no more synthesis machines will be built. You know, music is dependant on instruments, and music is at stake. And the soul of pioneers is fading out..."
Let's talk about one of your passions: Synths. You are a well-recognized lover of some "classic" machines, ARP2600 for example. What do you think about software synths?
"Software synths are often fantastic. I even have a partnership with a french company, Arturia, who developed a software version of the Moog Modular (I have my photo on the box !), approved by Bob Moog himself!Later, they released the virtual CS-80 and Mini Moog machines, and they proved that computers can do an excellent job simulating the sound of old machines. Well... but sound is not the only thing. A computer will never be the same as a real instrument, with its special shape, with its knobs, buttons, all things which make it a kind of personality in front of you, with which you deal, from which you get direct reactions from your gestures. For example, I remember when working on Equinox very late in the night, in a semi-consciousness, finding interesting ideas, which I am sure would have not surfaced if a computer had been involved. It has been said many times : there cannot be a direct relationship between a musician and a computer, through a mouse. Hardware controllers are better than nothing, but they are perceived by your mind as a separate entity.Software synths and hardware machines are quite different things, and cannot do the same thing. To tell you my deep thoughts, I'm a bit sad seing that less and less real instruments are being made today. The software industry flooded the synthesizer manufacturers with cheap and excellent products, but there is a risk. We can come to a point of no return, when no more synthesis machines will be built. You know, music is dependant on instruments, and music is at stake. And the soul of pioneers is fading out..."
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