> 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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