Fully exact again. And it depends also deeply the modes, the fashions of the moment.sfd wrote:If anything sounded "plastic" in 2003 or 2006 it's almost certian not because of the gear btu rather about the music itself.
Some sounds of the seventies and even more of the eighties (think the disco styles for examples) would sound very plastic today... and though they were made with wonderful synths which were also used by Alan Wilder, J-M Jarre, Eddie Jobson, Mike Oldfield, Robert Schroeder, Suzanne Ciani, Kraftwerk, Frank Zappa, Toni Banks, and so many others.
Were these synths focused on plastic sounds ? No.
Were these disco bands making plastic sounds with these synths? Not either.
So, what means "plastic" if it is not simply the relation WE HAVE OURSELVES with this or that kind of sound ?
Even the sounds of vintage organs like the Yamaha Electone D-85 or the Farfisa Melanie Deluxe or the Ace Tone 3000 or the Eminent P275 may be qualified as "plastic" for many current musicians while in fact these sounds are not plastic at all. They are simply chosen among other patches to represent quite faithfully a style of music. It is not because it is not the style of music of this or that musician that it must be qualified of "plastic sound"... it is simply a type of sound which is not made for the style of this musician but which will match perfectly the style of that other musician.
Even organ sounds like those from Klaus Wunderlich may be qualified of "plastic" or "toy" today by the current community of electronic music composers and players... while in fact these sounds are not at all plastic sounds nor toy sounds. They are even extremely beautiful for certain ears even yet today (among them mine).
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