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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Musical notation and Kate's use of Fairlight
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Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 14:57:52 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  1 14:57:52 1985
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Keywords: Kate Bush, Sequencers, Klaus Schulze

> (3) I'm sure I'd be able to hear the difference between music
> generated by a sequencer given notation and that played by a good human
> player on a velocity-sensitive keyboard.

I don't think this is true. (For one thing, I don't believe the Fairlight
CMI has a sequencer per se, in the sense that pre-digital synthesizers did
(although you will note from some recent comments in here that many of the
synthesizer "experts" out there have never used an analog synthesizer).)

For example, if you listen to Yes's (oft-maligned) _Drama_ album, at the
start of the song "White Car" there is a four-measure theme repeated four
times.  The last 2 times, Steve Howe plays an accoustic guitar (weakly)
in accompaniment, but the first two times, everything in it is played by
the CMI's `sequencer'.  I observed Geoff Downes do this, firsthand, at
their concert in Nashville.  But unless you know this, it is unlikely you
would suspect it from listening to the music.
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