The story title is wrong
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the_raptor
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· Score: 2, Informative
Its a list of electronic Instruments (according to the Fscking Article). Slow news day?
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CINC, 4th Penguin Legion
Modern Electronica and House....
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millahtime
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· Score: 1, Informative
Modern Electronica, House, Techno, etc actually came from Detroit, Michigan, USA. THe Motor City. Every year there is the Detroit Electronic Music Festival.
Re:Modern Electronica and House....
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justkarl
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· Score: 2, Informative
Modern Electronica, House, Techno, etc actually came from Detroit, Michigan, USA.
I would disagree. Although modern "techno"(in the specific definition of it) comes from detroit, most people would argue that house music was born in Chicago & New York as a bastard child of disco. Most orgins of different types of electronic music, in my opinion, can be attached to different locations in the U.S. and parts of europe.
What about NI
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slashflood
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· Score: 5, Informative
They list Steinberg, but ignored Native Instruments, the producer of Reaktor. Very incomplete.
Re:What about NI
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tulimulta
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· Score: 3, Informative
I don't think that NI existed in the 1980s. Do correct me if I'm wrong.
The beginning of the list was fascinating, but from the 1970s onwards the list has glaring omissions. Where's the ARP synths? Not to talk about the 1980s list. They should remove the last 20 years from the list, since other sites manage that part way better, eg. synthmuseum.com.
Theremin!
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Random_Goblin
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· Score: 4, Informative
The Theremin Leon Termen Soviet Union 1917
This looks to be the oldest electronic instrument that is still regarlly used today... of particular note is the artist Goldfrapp who plays a theremin in a MOST provocative manner during her live gigs!
87 years is quite a respectable age. I can't see a date for electric guitar anywhere on the site.
also just got to love
Dr Kent's Electronic Music Box Dr Earle Kent USA 1951
do you think he had an advertising jingle?
Software synths
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CausticPuppy
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· Score: 2, Informative
Maybe they update the page every 10 years or something. In 2008 they'll have coverage up through 2000 perhaps?
If they can cover up through 2004, probably one of the most important developments is software-based synthesizers, which either use totally new methods of synthesis (example: Antares Kantos) or emulate many of the older models on that list.
So there have been improvements in electronic music and synthesis in recent years, but nowadays everything is so electronic anyway that we don't hear anything and think "oh that's groundbreaking."
An analogy can be made with computer special FX. It's kind of like how the dinosaurs in the original Jurassic Park movie blew everybody away and were revolutionary back then. Now, over 10 years later, CG effects are 100 times better, but everybody is so used to CG effects by now that not a lot of it is revolutionary any more.
-- -CausticPuppy
"Of all the people I know, you're certainly one of them." -Somebody I don't know
the instrument..and the musicians?
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cabazorro
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· Score: 3, Informative
For the site to be truly complete it should provide famous music/musicians that made the sound of some of this instruments popular. The likes of: Tomita Jean Michelle Jarre Kitaro Vangelis Mike Oldfield Philip Glass and of course Tangerine Dream.
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This list is hardly comprehensive!
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mixwhit
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· Score: 2, Informative
Where's the Sal-Mar Construction, created by Salvatore Martirano in the early 1970's, toured throughout the world in the 70's and 80's, and still seen as one of the most interesting improvisatory electronics instrument ever devised? How about one of the first wave synthesizers by James Beauchamp in the 1960's? The page also seems to include some software systems as instruments (as it should), but leaves out most such systems (CMusic, Music V, CSound, Music 4C, max, kyma, etc.).
This is a pretty bad/. post.
Slashdot Mirror
Its a list of electronic Instruments (according to the Fscking Article). Slow news day?
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CINC, 4th Penguin Legion
Modern Electronica, House, Techno, etc actually came from Detroit, Michigan, USA. THe Motor City. Every year there is the Detroit Electronic Music Festival.
Evolution or ID?
They list Steinberg, but ignored Native Instruments, the producer of Reaktor. Very incomplete.
This looks to be the oldest electronic instrument that is still regarlly used today... of particular note is the artist Goldfrapp who plays a theremin in a MOST provocative manner during her live gigs!
87 years is quite a respectable age. I can't see a date for electric guitar anywhere on the site.
also just got to love
do you think he had an advertising jingle?
Maybe they update the page every 10 years or something. In 2008 they'll have coverage up through 2000 perhaps?
If they can cover up through 2004, probably one of the most important developments is software-based synthesizers, which either use totally new methods of synthesis (example: Antares Kantos) or emulate many of the older models on that list.
So there have been improvements in electronic music and synthesis in recent years, but nowadays everything is so electronic anyway that we don't hear anything and think "oh that's groundbreaking."
An analogy can be made with computer special FX. It's kind of like how the dinosaurs in the original Jurassic Park movie blew everybody away and were revolutionary back then. Now, over 10 years later, CG effects are 100 times better, but everybody is so used to CG effects by now that not a lot of it is revolutionary any more.
-CausticPuppy "Of all the people I know, you're certainly one of them." -Somebody I don't know
For the site to be truly complete
it should provide famous music/musicians that
made the sound of some of this instruments
popular. The likes of:
Tomita
Jean Michelle Jarre
Kitaro
Vangelis
Mike Oldfield
Philip Glass
and of course
Tangerine Dream.
- these are not the droids you are looking for -
Where's the Sal-Mar Construction, created by Salvatore Martirano in the early 1970's, toured throughout the world in the 70's and 80's, and still seen as one of the most interesting improvisatory electronics instrument ever devised? How about one of the first wave synthesizers by James Beauchamp in the 1960's? The page also seems to include some software systems as instruments (as it should), but leaves out most such systems (CMusic, Music V, CSound, Music 4C, max, kyma, etc.). This is a pretty bad /. post.