When Hip Hop/Dance music uses recognizable GM preset sounds: C/D

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DUD OMG SO DUD EARS BLEEDING DUD esp. the pizzicato strings patches and anything else from the 'orchestral' bank DUD LIKE YOU WOULDN'T FUCKING BELIEVE, JEEBUS CHRISTMAS THAT SHIT IS DUD

― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 10 April 2003 23:45 (twenty-two years ago)

dissenting opinions with examples welcome of course

― Millar (Millar), Friday, 11 April 2003 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)

who gives a fuck as long as its a good song.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 11 April 2003 01:24 (twenty-two years ago)

shocka

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 11 April 2003 01:24 (twenty-two years ago)

that's the trick, it's a good song, and then really awful sounds just come along and have to ruin it for me, eg lots and lots of Neptunes/Timbaland productions of late

― Millar (Millar), Friday, 11 April 2003 01:42 (twenty-two years ago)

it's very indie

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 11 April 2003 01:57 (twenty-two years ago)

jess, my guess would be those individuals who appreciate timbre in music as much as composition.

― aeon, Friday, 11 April 2003 02:36 (twenty-two years ago)

the best example of this sort of thing is the "orchestra stab" especially when played as an arpeggio

― Honda (Honda), Friday, 11 April 2003 02:57 (twenty-two years ago)

also, lots of cool-ass synth timpani

― Honda (Honda), Friday, 11 April 2003 03:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Both of Honda's examples are exactly the reasons I want to start collecting firearms

― Millar (Millar), Friday, 11 April 2003 03:25 (twenty-two years ago)

CLASSIC

― minna (minna), Friday, 11 April 2003 06:47 (twenty-two years ago)

When pianists use, like, a piano to play, like piano notes without using anything other than the pedals to change the texture - C/D?

C'mon, it's an instrument, for fuck's sake - you can't blame people for using what it has to offer, just like you can't blame the vast majority of pianists for *not* throwing found objects onto the strings, or sticking knives into the works at random intervals, or any other Sonic Youth/Boomian con/destructive techniques.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 11 April 2003 07:17 (twenty-two years ago)

funnily enough i've just been messing around with the Pizz Strings sound on my Yamaha CS1x - its actually the best synthesized string sound on there probably. as a piece of kit its a bit out of date tho - nice warm pads and ok drums but thats about it

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 11 April 2003 10:35 (twenty-two years ago)

i love the flanged string on Jay-Z's 'Excuse Me Miss' - its so sprawling and decadent, not sure where it comes from tho

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 11 April 2003 10:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't mind GM presets in hip-hop/dance music nearly as much as in pop music for some reason. Like, with the knowledge in the back of my head that a six-digit dollar amount was used to produce a track, I feel ripped off when they couldn't be bothered to use an ACTUAL piano, nor even a patch with any sort of dynamics or somesuch....UGH. (I'm "ugh"ing at YOU Michelle Branch in particular.)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 11 April 2003 11:46 (twenty-two years ago)

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