You Only Get Two (Apparently)
Saw a video the other day of a guy I really like, still don’t know how to say his internet name but it’s linked here.
He just loves the old Tempest from Dave Smith Instruments and he knows it amazingly and gosh then he says really you just need two things so what are those two things and I think he’s talking about a synth and a groove box and not sure what his synth is but I know mine is the Roland SP-404MKII sampler which is basically a groove box paired with the Roland System-1 which is not the most popular synth in the world but one that I really bonded with.
He talked about timing and if you get it during the imprint time, you know that’s kind of your thing and I’ve talked about it here too, and these are certainly mine. I had the old SP and just loved the way it looked and something about the look and the feel of the System-1, it even fits in my analog case that I am oddly dedicated to, and everything with this thing just really really works for me, this setup.
And unfortunately, I think these are my two. They think really well together. I can even kind of fit my little Zoom LiveTrak L-6 up here for live. It is a perfect setup. I’ll put a picture here but maybe this is my SWU riding partner, pairs very well with a guitar, and these are my two things.
You kind of don’t get to pick, right, you get what you get and you don’t pitch a fit, but I could endlessly make music with only these two things. I don’t think it means don’t have other stuff, but to know two things deeply, I mean really know them, that’s something different.
This would be even probably for me more than the OP-1, which is real sacrilege for me to say, but I think it’s true. This could be that table beats rig that I’ve been looking for and I’ve had it for years.
It’s funny how things like that work.