From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2011 #352 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website: http://jmdl.com JMDL Digest Saturday, October 15 2011 Volume 2011 : Number 352 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- RE: New Library item: MELLIFLUOUS [Susan Tierney McNamara Subject: RE: New Library item: MELLIFLUOUS Sorry I'm a couple days late on this one, but I have to defend Joni on Shine! I love it and think that it's some of her finest guitar work (This Place/If) ... plus my favorite song on the disc is Hana, which I think uses a lot of those factory provided sounds. I respect your experience on these issues though Dave. I really really really want a mellotron for Christmas!!! (Santa are you listening?) Sue >Shine is an example of a technological neophyte thinking that all these convenient factory provided sounds in her >new keyboard would be all she needed to make an album: fake guitar strums on BYT, fake saxophone licks when she >had Bob Sheppard available, fake piano when she has a real one, and so on. Most of us that did projects with MIDI >sequencing look back at our early efforts and realized the sounds we once thought were so cool are lifeless, >uninteresting and immediately dated. It's as if Joni just went through that phase 20 years after the rest of us. >Dave ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2011 #352 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, send to joni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------