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Tom Williams <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 27 Jan 1993 10:08:55 -0500
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> From: Adlai Waksman <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: RE:  synth players and registration
>
> ...synths don't offer the same possibilities for registration
> and tonal expression during a piece.

          No, not the same; but comparable -- inferior in some ways,
          but superior in others.

> On a synthesizer you simply don't have the organist's fine control of
> registration, at the level of divisions, couplers, and individual stops
> that ADD to the particular type and nuance of "organ sound".  Punching
> up a new patch on a synthesizer TOTALLY REPLACES the previous sound.
> Hardly amenable to "fluid", expressive organ registration.

          True, on a synth one can't just pull a knob and add a 2'
          flute; however, one *can* reserve an oscillator for that 2'
          flute, and bring it in *gradually* using a pedal, slider, or
          modulation wheel.  This provides *more* control over that
          stop -- in performance time -- than is possible on a
          traditional organ.

> Any electronic instrument that does give you such useful low-level
> control, practically, as you're playing, without having to dig through
> several layers of menus on a tiny display, is probably a "pipeless organ".

          Yes.  You've described modern synths and samplers, when
          they're in the hands of us diligent artists. :-)  I only use
          the menus for preparation -- during performance, menus are
          admittedly useless.

                                                -Tom Williams
                                                 Computer Center Manager
                                                 Alderson-Broaddus College
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