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What's a Synth Pad?2023 Oct 19
This article (despite it ending with a sales pitch for their product) is an eye-opening view into what a synthesizer can do for a piece of music, why it's used, and what it replaces compared to classical compositions. And, icing on the cake, the example it shows just happens to be the live Spiritualized recording from 1998 that I just had to purchase on physical CD to get my own copy of, as no digital downloads of it are available.
This article (despite it ending with a sales pitch for their product) is an eye-opening view into what a synthesizer can do for a piece of music, why it's used, and what it replaces compared to classical compositions. And, icing on the cake, the example it shows just happens to be the live Spiritualized recording from 1998 that I just had to purchase on physical CD to get my own copy of, as no digital downloads of it are available.