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==[[Player Of The Month (Beat Instrumental 1978)]]== | ==[[Player Of The Month (Beat Instrumental 1978)]]== | ||
But a ''' | But a '''synthesizer''' sounds a bit clockwork - mostly because everyone uses it the same way. There’s only been one or two really original '''synthesizer''' players." | ||
==[[Allan Holdsworth (Beat Instrumental 1979)]]== | ==[[Allan Holdsworth (Beat Instrumental 1979)]]== | ||
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“But I’ve got a reasonable understanding of it now. I’ve created a lot of my own patches from scratch and it’s getting closer. No cigar perhaps, but it’s getting closer.’ | “But I’ve got a reasonable understanding of it now. I’ve created a lot of my own patches from scratch and it’s getting closer. No cigar perhaps, but it’s getting closer.’ | ||
==[[ | ==[[Guitarist's Guitarist (Jazz Times 1989)]]== | ||
"I’ve been trying - and I haven’t succeeded yet, but I keep getting closer - to create a kind of a horn sound that’s somewhere between an oboe and a soprano saxophone. And since there’s no real acoustic instrument that I can learn how to play, I use the '''synthesizer'''s that I control with the Synth-Axe to create a sound which is somehow like that. I’ve always liked the idea of '''synth'''esis. I mean, there must be so many sounds - unheard sounds - that would be wonderful to hear. The real quest is to find some of them. Hopefully, eventually I’ll come up with a sound that isn’t trying to be something else, but which is definitely identifiable as something else. | "I’ve been trying - and I haven’t succeeded yet, but I keep getting closer - to create a kind of a horn sound that’s somewhere between an oboe and a soprano saxophone. And since there’s no real acoustic instrument that I can learn how to play, I use the '''synthesizer'''s that I control with the Synth-Axe to create a sound which is somehow like that. I’ve always liked the idea of '''synth'''esis. I mean, there must be so many sounds - unheard sounds - that would be wonderful to hear. The real quest is to find some of them. Hopefully, eventually I’ll come up with a sound that isn’t trying to be something else, but which is definitely identifiable as something else. | ||
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Because I long to be a wind player - I always wanted to play saxophone - when I go to a '''synthesizer''' to create a sound, that’s usually where I start. I’m not trying to replicate anything specific; I just say, "Well, let’s try and get a wind-instrument-from-Mars tone." So long as it’s a wind instrument, that’s all that matters. I quite liked the sound on "Spokes," which is just a lone Oberheim Xpander. In the middle, I had a second Xpander detuned a tone away from the first, and faded that in during the middle section where Jimmy and Vinnie are just completely reaming. I wanted to leave it kind of open there for the bass and drums to do a bit of savaging. | Because I long to be a wind player - I always wanted to play saxophone - when I go to a '''synthesizer''' to create a sound, that’s usually where I start. I’m not trying to replicate anything specific; I just say, "Well, let’s try and get a wind-instrument-from-Mars tone." So long as it’s a wind instrument, that’s all that matters. I quite liked the sound on "Spokes," which is just a lone Oberheim Xpander. In the middle, I had a second Xpander detuned a tone away from the first, and faded that in during the middle section where Jimmy and Vinnie are just completely reaming. I wanted to leave it kind of open there for the bass and drums to do a bit of savaging. | ||
==[[Allan Holdsworth | ==[[Allan Holdsworth: An interview (Atavachron 1994)]]== | ||
CH: To what extent has the "MIDI revolution" affected your music? | CH: To what extent has the "MIDI revolution" affected your music? | ||
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AH: Oh yeah! There’s a lot. It would depend on '''synth'''esis... you know, the way it goes and how much the instruments develop. The sad part about it, of that thing, is because of the instruments that I’ve got now, is that I only have a SynthAxe that really doesn’t belong to me because I sold mine. But the next thing would be like, perhaps this instrument that Harvey Starr makes, which is like a keyboard. You know, totally like... it’s a keyboard, with like two necks. A guitar... it looks like a pedal-steel guitar. But there’s buttons instead of strings. | AH: Oh yeah! There’s a lot. It would depend on '''synth'''esis... you know, the way it goes and how much the instruments develop. The sad part about it, of that thing, is because of the instruments that I’ve got now, is that I only have a SynthAxe that really doesn’t belong to me because I sold mine. But the next thing would be like, perhaps this instrument that Harvey Starr makes, which is like a keyboard. You know, totally like... it’s a keyboard, with like two necks. A guitar... it looks like a pedal-steel guitar. But there’s buttons instead of strings. | ||
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