“I don’t really have any finished programs in my synthesizers, I just have the neutral program I go from and I set up each sound individually as it comes along, because it will never be right just calling up a preset. It’ll never be as perfect as if you tweaked it and actually spent a bit of time on it, because synthesizers are not like acoustic instruments.”
“If you get a violinist in, it’s always a violin sound but the way he plays will change the sound drastically from one track to another because he generates the sound himself with his fingers and his bow. But with a synthesizer, if you go to the string patch, it doesn’t give a shit if it’s a Break Dance track or some moody acoustic thing. Do you know what I mean? It’ll sound the same and it won’t be right. That, in a way, is why I never bother to use presets.”
Very often it’s the chain of equipment you use anyway, not a piece of equipment by itself. For example, if we play a Fairlight bass drum into a Roland graphic, into a DDA desk and onto a Studer tape machine, I know we can get a good sound. It’s just a matter of finding out what each device can do, by driving it to its limit and then seeing what it’s not so good at – which category it fits into with other pieces of equipment.”
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