Que-Ever
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You want to know why I hate synthesizers? Becuase of the way they're used. YOu know, the instruments themselves are fine. If they're used in a band, like (off the top of my head) Blue Oyster Cult, and it adds to a song, that's fine. OR if someone like Stevie Wonder plays around on one and it's great and he's got his buddies backing him up, that's fine too. When people get together, and make an effort to write a song that they have fun playing together, and they get into a groove with each other and all that sweet stuff, that's seriously some of the coolest things that can happen to somebody. You rely and depend on each other, everybody has their own part in the song to make it sound good, even the guy in the back with five keyboards stacked up and a bottle of schnobbwhatsit in his hand.
But then you get people who pore over manuals and obsess over every little knob and tweak, etc. etc. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, you want things going exactly the way you want it to, right? But then there are people like Squarepusher, whatever his name is, who don't show up for interviews because it might punch a hole in his douche-aura. You get people like Aphextwin (the joke is there's only one guy, right?) who try to stick every synchopated beat, every manufactured squeal, every sixty-fourth note into every song he can. What is the point of that?
It's too little effort, and yet too much effort. Instead of dealing with people and getting the ideas of others (Which I'll admit can be annoying) you'll just do it yourself! So you go and you program, and program, and you get "works in progress" which aren't completed, not because it's not polished enough, but because you didn't have enough time to finish it? And you do it all yourself. I know how much work it is trying to plug everything in and get it all set up properly, and that's with three friends halping out, and when you have to program, and layer, and do all kinds of atmospheric bullshit in the background because it's your vision or whatever, and then (god forbid) you use a real guitar or drum set occasionally (or bass, like squaredoucher) you do the same again, but with more cords and more plugs and... it's just seems like a waste of time to me. Is it really that hard to approximate the sounds on a physical instrument, get a few guys to back you up, do it that way? I don't know if this is true or not (I also don't really care) but people who make music by themselves mainly with synths seem like they would be extremely antisocial.
Then you get into the actual music itself... if you could call it that. Forgive me, but I don't like electronic drumbeats repeating themselves for minutes on end with wind whooshing in the background and some doip-ey water drips with reverb and distortion, you know? Honestly, Of all the "electronic music" I've heard I've liked zero percent and was bored by about 90 percent. Do you think you're some kind of great composer? Are you trying to convey your feelings? Paint pictures with sounds? Cuz it aint working. I think my biggest beef with synthesizer users, electronic music, techno, trance, (I don't even know how this stuff is categorized) it that they're trying to be something they're not. It's like somebody playing guitar hero and thinking they can join a band- if you can figure out how to work the damn thing, you're suddenly some mozart prodigy. Nuh-uh.
But then you get people who pore over manuals and obsess over every little knob and tweak, etc. etc. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, you want things going exactly the way you want it to, right? But then there are people like Squarepusher, whatever his name is, who don't show up for interviews because it might punch a hole in his douche-aura. You get people like Aphextwin (the joke is there's only one guy, right?) who try to stick every synchopated beat, every manufactured squeal, every sixty-fourth note into every song he can. What is the point of that?
It's too little effort, and yet too much effort. Instead of dealing with people and getting the ideas of others (Which I'll admit can be annoying) you'll just do it yourself! So you go and you program, and program, and you get "works in progress" which aren't completed, not because it's not polished enough, but because you didn't have enough time to finish it? And you do it all yourself. I know how much work it is trying to plug everything in and get it all set up properly, and that's with three friends halping out, and when you have to program, and layer, and do all kinds of atmospheric bullshit in the background because it's your vision or whatever, and then (god forbid) you use a real guitar or drum set occasionally (or bass, like squaredoucher) you do the same again, but with more cords and more plugs and... it's just seems like a waste of time to me. Is it really that hard to approximate the sounds on a physical instrument, get a few guys to back you up, do it that way? I don't know if this is true or not (I also don't really care) but people who make music by themselves mainly with synths seem like they would be extremely antisocial.
Then you get into the actual music itself... if you could call it that. Forgive me, but I don't like electronic drumbeats repeating themselves for minutes on end with wind whooshing in the background and some doip-ey water drips with reverb and distortion, you know? Honestly, Of all the "electronic music" I've heard I've liked zero percent and was bored by about 90 percent. Do you think you're some kind of great composer? Are you trying to convey your feelings? Paint pictures with sounds? Cuz it aint working. I think my biggest beef with synthesizer users, electronic music, techno, trance, (I don't even know how this stuff is categorized) it that they're trying to be something they're not. It's like somebody playing guitar hero and thinking they can join a band- if you can figure out how to work the damn thing, you're suddenly some mozart prodigy. Nuh-uh.
