Is there a market for cover sounds?

can you do FLY LIKE AN EAGLE?

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A couple'o'quarts'o'beer makes it so the intonation does not offend yer ear!

I'd be willing to give it a try if you're serious. Sure.

Eric

........which sound though. There is all the B3 stuff but I would imagine you are speaking of the pulsing/delayed synth line that echos at certain points?

You could probably get lazy people or people who aren't real keyboardists to buy your stuff... but for me, making it sound right is half the fun of playing. I'm really a stickler that it has to be right, and I would never trust someone else to do it for me.

i agree with echo and i reckon youll get more ou t of sharing it then selling it...you think people are gonna buy what they cana make themselves....

I think it's a great idea!

If i can geet my hands on the XR this year, i would buy single patch for that kind of flute sound Lyle May uses all the time. It's fantastic!

whats the point in having a programmamble instruments if you dont want to program it yourself!?

Well, if you dont have time to program it! that's one reason.

If you dont know how to program that sound! 2nd reason.

If your lazy! 3rd Reason.



I'm with the 1º and 2º reasons like i sayed, i would buy that particulary sound!

Well, it's not up to me what people do with thier programmable synths. THere are people who drive SUVs on pavement thier whole lives and there are surely people that will buy a Fantom for the presets and wonder how they will ever get it to sound like this or that. We also all have sampling abilities but buy SRX boards. What the reasoning is isnt really my concern. I just love to get the sounds right as Echo mentioned. It is alot of fun to me and if I can benefit financially for it, why not. I think it's a little harsh to call people lazy or to refer to them as Non-Keyboardists just because they dont want to tweak filters, lfos, envelopes, and search through hundreds of waveforms for hours on end just to say that they can play The Cars' "Just what I Needed" with the perfect sound. For all we know, they are to busy golfing or getting laid or something while I'm couped-up in my basement with a piece of plastic with silicon chips in it. It's nothing to brag about. Just a possible opportunity for me. There have been companies that specialized in programming for synths for years and years before me. I just thought I'd fly the flag here and see what people thought. If there is enough interest, I'd be happy to do it. Hell, for that matter, I'll even be nice and not call them names or make then feel like crap for not wanting to program thier own sounds. Lol. Peace my brothers.

Eric

for some, getting laid is nearly as good as listening to amazing sounds, that you have made, booming out of your synth...

Hey! dont look at me like that!
I did say nearly!

If Roland would just incorporate the expansion slot idea I have then I could kill both of those birds with one stone. Lol.

I think it's a good idea. I was actually on here browsing for particular cover sounds. My original band also plays covers 7 days a week nearly year round for a living. With all these cover sequences I have to create, I'd much rather put most of my programming energy into the original stuff. So If I could find at least the beginnings of a sound I need, it would speed me right along. It's not always about being to lazy or not wanting to do it. Sometimes people have a lot to do! However, I definately wouldn't pay for it.

Eric
I reckon that's a good idea - go for it. My biggest thrill tends to be when I hear a patch that sounds 'real' to me and I find there's enough sounds on my X6 and expansion boards to make my music. I should say that my music is pop/rock/blues inclined and I can also understand how lovers of techno, dance and other similar genres get their jollies from home baking their own whizzy whooshy synth patches. It's just that it doesn't interest me. So if you can improve on some of the existing orthodox unstument sounds - particularly electric guitars - then I for one would be interested. As for covers of sounds heard on famous hits, I'm sure that would be very useful for lots of performers who use their Fantoms live, so there is a market there, but of what size I don't know.

John

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