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I could listen to Mr Linn all day long. He's like the Carl Sagan of the electronic music world. This really was a pretty special show. Thanks Nick. Thanks all. 🙂
Great point by Roger about being born In 1955 and being young when the digital wave was crashing. What a brilliant man. So humble. So open still. Thank you Mr Linn
Another Fantastic episode with one of are heroes.... Congrats Nick as always ... the God father of the youtube synth comunity .... congrats on 18years of Ytb ! me following 16 ! gosh
Met Rodger L and Dave S back in 2011 Namm right when Nick arrived to interview them! I was riding on the coat tails of Fairlight’s Peter V. All over top life time memory! Thank you Rodger!
Yes, Roger can have fun mentally calculating roughly how much in profits they cost him … 😉 And Human League learnt how incredibly disappointed Roger Linn was in them!! 😀 … lol It’s like The airing of grievances at Festivus! Fun for the whole synth family! 😋
Just looking at the LM1 again as I watch this podcast, something very crucial: it could do any time signature! Here we are in 2024 and so many products only do 4/4. Roger was a visionary in so many ways that others are falling short on even today.
Great stuff. Here's a curveball for a future podcast: Please tell us about definitive solutions to avoid ground loops when connecting gear, random synths or eurorack alike. Cheers!
Rogers take on A.I. melding with the way the user chooses to work with it was a great take!... ( For instance asking the A.I. to study your favourite tracks or way of working & create presets etc... ) ~ That was a superb interview with an absolute legend!!!... ( Thanks Sonicstate & panel... 🧡 )
I also used SpecDrum, even managed to create my own soundpack somehow. Too bad I had no other music instrument to go with it, and I probably can't find recordings. :-) I also had hardware rotary "slow down" knob on my Spectrum+ so I was able to slow down the sounds, but I had to not slow down too much because RAM would not be refreshed = crash. :-)
It's fabulous to hear someone talking sense about AI. It'll put library musicians out of work. They will definitely need to find another line of occupation, which will be personally difficult definitely, but library music will remain what it is. The same goes for AI Coldplay.
I hope Roger Linn is right, that people are interested in humanity. Music cannot be seen like a chess game however, and soon it could very well be that AI , which is basically a thievery on the grandest scale, will 'generate' music that appears human to people. They're already completely mystified by these huge DJs that basically fake doing things when they're just playing a prerecorded set and all they have to do in 2 hours is really press the play button once.
Yeah, SOME... people are interested in "humanity". Just as there are people interested in antiques, vintage synths, folk/acoustic music, etc... niched stuff like that. So yes, .1% of the population, but yeah....they exist. I think that most people downplaying A.I. are either ignorant to it, or trying to keep people positive (so they'll keep buying product in the meantime).
