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I still have an OLD Yamaha FB-01 sound module and an OLD Roland MT-32 sound module. I don't even REMEMBER when I got those things but I can't get rid of them. Certain sounds just sound better than anything I have. A couple of the older school pianos in the Yamaha and 2 of the strings on the Roland. All these Ensoniq boards I have, and I still go back to the 80s for those old modules.



There are some absolutely great sounds in my Korg DS8 and a couple of nice ones left in my Yamaha TH81z. Both are FM synthesis which won't make it for a general purpose sound module, but for the good things they do, they do it well.

True the new sound modules I have do some great things that the old ones do not, and if I were to have to limit myself to one of the ones I currently own, it would be the SD90, but I'd miss some of those old sounds.

But fortunately, I don't have to give up the old sounds, I just add the new ones. My sequencer will support 16 sound modules and if I needed more, there are ways to do that as well.

So now when I sequence a new tune, I have thousands of voices at my disposal in 10 sound modules and a couple of hardware samplers. And the cool thing about MIDI is I can change the instrument to fit the tune. I can take a clean guitar sound and make it a Strat, Tele, 335, Les Paul, some with choice of front, mid or rear pickup, plus a number of other non-named clean guitar voices. Plus a number of processed guitar voices not available in the General MIDI set. Same goes for other instruments. I even have a nice Rock-a-Billy bass that sounds like a nylon string bass with slap articulation.

I love MIDI for all the variety it gives me.

Lately I've been mixing with a few Real Tracks, I like some of them, but I can't do the things with the RTs that I can do with MIDI (yet).

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