You could spend hours crafting the perfect bass sound, but it would be gone the moment you switched off the synth. Plug-ins allow you to recall the sounds you have created and use MIDI notation, whereas you can't store sounds on the early analog synthesizers. Perhaps it's a matter of convenience and flexibility. An original ARP 2600 - switch it off and your sounds are gone! Image: Arturia Then there are musicians, such as Melbourne-based producer Mat Watson of Other Places, who uses a hardware version of his mainstay synthesizer, the 1972 EMS Synthi AKS, and a software plug-in of the very same instrument. There are musicians who will painfully track down a vintage synthesizer, or snap one up on eBay, rather than download a plug-in that can imitate its sounds. And technologically, the crossover from one world into the other is manageable.īut the idea of recreating analog hardware in a software environment is one that still takes a bit of getting used to. For one, it's cheaper than buying the real thing.
It makes sense, for instance, to create software versions of digital synthesizers from the 1980s and 90s and use them on your computer. Instrument and effects plug-ins have been in common use for years. To play this audio please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 audioĬall it computer music if you will, but the use of new technology continues to fascinate and shape the way musicians make music. Testing music software: DW makes some noise with the Arturia V Collection
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