An sp-1200 would then be just an old bit and a new bit should sound the same, so it’s placebo that draws people to it.
That’s always going to be one side of the coin, and now there is a different audience who enjoys the sound and can’t get their hands on devices which legitimately reproduce it.
I do see your point about the Linn product specifically, but a general statement which mostly just says nostalgia is bullshit is kind of relevant outside of this product because it’s (at it’s core) a stab at anyone who thinks differently.
Like I said I wouldn’t argue with him and ears don’t all hear the same. For example a guy who was developing it probably has a different perspective to the person growing up with it and romanticizing it.
So, in that regard, there are tons of things in this world which represent a person who desires that which delivers on what they’re looking for outside of a computer, and then the people who will argue that a computer can do it better or the same.
Is there more validity to one side than the other? It often seems that to the side proposing one or the other, there is, but outside of that if a person prefers a cheese sandwich to a synthetic cheese sandwich flavored drink, then that’s on the individual person.
I do think that by saying bits are bits, do you think rossum would interpret that as a stab, saying that he’s only reproducing the sp-1200 because it’s a lucrative way to rip off people who don’t know the difference? I’m sure it could be interpreted that way if you wanted to, I don’t necessarily think that.
I don’t think he had any of this in mind at all, he’s just talking about behringer, but in regard to sampling (and generally speaking, this behringer offering is a sampling drum machine) there are a lot of people looking for hardware which achieves a $5000 sound at a $400 price point so it comes down to whether a tech guy’s opinion of current trends in technology is more valid than a musician’s opinion of the fundamental sounds used when they are creating music.
