Hello Ardith,   
      
   On Sat 2039-Mar-26 23:52, Ardith Hinton (1:153/716) wrote to James Bradley:   
      
   AH>           I always wanted a little brother & I understand teasing   
   AH> Sis goes with the territory, but I'm glad to see you & Richard   
   AH> exchanging messages.  :-)    
      
   YEp, we've chatted in live_audio and a couple of other   
   places too .   
      
      
   AH>           Yes, that would work.  But Richard also brought up an   
   AH> important point which I almost missed until I'd made some further   
   AH> enquiries.  Serious musicians who do keyboards professionally are in   
   AH> a very different category from the "play by numbers" crowd.  They   
   AH> tend to use the Hammond B3 whereas Grandma Potts would use a Hammond   
   AH> "S" series chord organ or something similar... i.e. probably what   
   AH> the majority of non-musicians think of as an "organ" nowadays.    
      
      
   YEp, and I get so frustrated with their limitations.  That   
   was my beef with the first pattern based drum boxes, so   
   limiting.  I used them as beat boxes on one man shows   
   occasionally, but then a guy turned me onto midi when I was   
   working on a band's project in his studio.  I had a little   
   windfall from that project and another, and he'd been trying to get me to join   
   the midi world for a long time.  THis was   
   back in the early '90's btw.  HE sat me down in his control   
   room with a good 76 key keyboard controller, an Alesis mmt-8 sequencer and An   
   Alesis drum module and another couple of   
   midi modules in a rack.   
   I ended up spending about $3k by the time I left his shop   
   that afternoon .   
      
   sInce then I"ve used the midi automation with synthesizers   
   etc. to do entire music beds for some jingles and other   
   projects.  OFten I'd do midi drums, percussion then replace   
   the trap drums with an actual drummer, or bring in musicians for extra parts   
   such as guitars, and of course vocals   
   .   
      
   AH> Richard needn't worry about being replaced by electronic   
   AH> substitutes, but many people seem to believe any fool can play   
   AH> keyboards or sing or play drums or whatever.  I'm inclined to think   
   AH> the author of these jokes is taking a sly dig at wannabe musicians.    
   AH> :-))    
      
   OH yeah, lots of those.  I've seen a lot of those, from   
   various points of view.  I'm sure you both noted mine that I found elsewhere   
   on the lady wanting the wedding reception   
   band .  That was my biggest problem with the midi   
   thing live, people treat it in the same manner they would   
   hiring a dj for karaoke night or something.  tHey don't   
   realize that getting a midi repertoir of a bunch of popular   
   tunes arranged for your voice etc. is a pretty good sized   
   endeavor.   
   I may not hire a horn section or bass player at $45/hour to   
   play on your music bed for your jingle, but I'll spend an 8   
   hour day on your 30 second jingle with donut, etc.   
   Back in the mid to late nineties back in the midwest I did a lot of arranging   
   for songwriter demos too.   
      
      
      
      
   Regards,   
              Richard   
   --- timEd 1.10.y2k+   
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