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From: toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
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Subject: Re: SynthLab
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Date: 16 Aug 90 19:44:57 GMT
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scottg@gnh-starport.cts.com (Scott Gentry) writes:

>Todd, in one of your many posts you say: 
>> I positively _hate_ some of the lame sounding and noisy instruments that are
>> on the SynthLab beta disk...

>I'm not surprised in the least that you hate some things about it.  My question
>to you is simple:  When do you like anything?  I don't mean to hurt your
>feelings or to flame you.  

No sweat, you've got a point -- I do rag on almost everything these days.

I'll be the first to tell anybody that SynthLab is AWESOME. But when I demo it,
I have to be wary of the damn audiophiles who'll snicker at a hissy horn
instrument... and those are the people SynthLab was intended to impress.

There are a lot of things about music development on the GS that need improving
and bitching about it is the fastest way to get people thinking about finding
solutions. Only sometimes the bitching comes out as generic hatred (see the
quote of mine above) when the person bitching has had a lousy day. What I
should have said, was, "Some of the instruments are noisy, lame sounding, or
both, and that will have to be rectified before we can produce any real demos
with MIDI Synth."

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu