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Topic: The future of PSG |
Bo Legg
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Posted 30 Jun 2011 7:26 am |
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I think there is a good possibility the future of PSG will be sitting behind a computer that looks like a PSG featuring Software periodically updated with reprogrammed PSG samples activated by a rhythm guitar player to keep the imperfect human element.
All of us mere mortals would then just play one of those PSG Computers rented to us by our then new government leader Cong Foo Mau in honky tonks and recording studios while the anointed ones will be inventing new licks on old conventional PSGs at a Sample Factory.
Just think you could instantly be playing like Paul Franklin and never have to practice unless of course you wanted for some reason to move to our new Capital in China and work in one of those Sample Factories. |
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David Mason
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Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 30 Jun 2011 12:42 pm
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Of course you think that - we have programmed you to think that way! Our Department of Social Engineering experts detected the need for this, researched and applied the correct incentive stimuli - and, Blammo! There you are.
Keep up the good work, Unit XR2883785-C-PZ-07.  |
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b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Jason Hull
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Posted 1 Jul 2011 3:36 am
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| You're wrong, Bo. |
Right! People are hands-on and will always love playing "real" instruments! Samplers and synths already sound real, but they do not have the allure of something with strings. It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that string! |
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David Ellison
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California, USA
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Posted 1 Jul 2011 9:21 am
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| In the early '80s, a lot of people thought drums were a thing of the past. Everything was going to be drum machines, or at the very least, electronic drums. That was almost 30 years ago. |
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Tom Wolverton
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Carpinteria, CA
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Posted 1 Jul 2011 10:36 am
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I seem to recall in that book "Megatrends" the concept of "High Tech/High Touch". I think that concept is in place for music. People that work all day long on computers, stare at text messages and are on cell phones, soon discover there is a need deep inside of them for something basically non-tech. Music (from the gut, not from a computer) provides that for people. We need it that way, or we'll all die young from heart attacks. : )
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b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 1 Jul 2011 10:40 am
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When I was a computer programmer, they only way I could get the code out of my head was to play music. Computers aren't nearly as much fun to play with as steel guitars.
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Gary Watkins
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Bristol, VA
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Posted 1 Jul 2011 10:51 am
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b0b,
If you haver a black computer, the code looks better.
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Billy Tonnesen
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R.I.P., Buena Park, California
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Posted 1 Jul 2011 1:50 pm
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| In thinking about it, the future of the Pedal Steel Guitar, no matter how good the Player, is going to depend on the Players charisma, Personality, and the ability to "Sell" the instrument. In days past some of the great Salesmen were Noel Boggs, Speedy West, Buddy Emmons, etc. The public was caught up in their personalaties as much as their playing. |
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Bob Hickish
From:
Port Ludlow, Washington, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 1 Jul 2011 2:11 pm
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OK !! Bo -- That does it !!!! I’m moving to China where the action is .   
The lone red star state ??  |
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Bo Legg
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Posted 4 Jul 2011 9:07 am
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What I’m leading up to here is if we keep making the PSG more and more complex it soon will become a computer and if we continue to just striving to play the same thing better than the guy before why not just stop fooling around and just go to the computer.
I’m speaking here in terms of recorded music with or without PSG in general judging from the CDs and Concerts I’ve gone to lately. I’m speaking of the whole mostly boring thing. It might as will go strictly to computerized because it is already surely dying or dead. It is boring the crap out of folks.
Less is more and sometime the best direction is backward.
If I had to go to a concert or buy a CD it would be to see and hear somebody like this.
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David Mason
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Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 4 Jul 2011 10:45 am
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| judging from the CDs and Concerts I’ve gone to lately. |
This would seem to me to be the heart of the issue; I've run across some wonderful new music the past several years. Try Pandora, for starters; enter in your favorite not-boring music and see where it takes you.
http://www.pandora.com/?gclid=CKrfpOar6KkCFQFN4AodU28vVQ#/account/register |
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