I think I said pretty much the same thing and “agreed somewhat” to the person I quoted. Meaning I don’t entirely agree. The caveat I made to guitar patches is a bit different because there’s only so much you can do to develop an original style, sound, tone with guitar especially when it comes to digital modelers. It’s very possible to cop someone’s sound exactly. As guitarists some of us tend to be more intense about these things. Otherwise everything starts to sound the same.I see nothing wrong with saving time and effort by purchasing patches/libraries or using ones that are free. I usually tweak them quite a bit anyway, so if nothing else they are a good starting point that gets me further ahead faster, thereby saving a lot of time to work on other Performances/Sounds...I agree somewhat. I am nowhere as skilled at programming (or playing) as Manuele Montesanti but always felt using someone else’s creations is not completely fair when everything that is needed to create them is at your fingertips and imagination.
Then again dissecting patches can be a big learning exercise. I use guitar modeling and would never use pre made patches live, but have learned cool little tricks from others.
The Easy Sounds people (Hans-Peter Henkel) have some sound libraries that are dedicated to the Montage M and ANx if anyone is interested. More expensive, but packed with content.
I've shared several Performances on Soundmondo that I customized (some FM-X sounds that I created from scratch) and hope they are useful to others & save them some time.
I certainly hope no one is so sensitive and easily influenced that they would take anything I said as law and run with it. I pretty much at this point use non original Performances with the M8x and probably will be that way except for minor tweaks.
I remember an interview with RicK Wakeman saying he has other people “take care of the technical bits”. This was when he was using a bunch of digital keyboards in Yes and AWBH.
Why would I even post this stuff if I had strong feelings otherwise?
Statistics: Posted by ChrisN — Fri Sep 13, 2024 12:15 am