Juan Atkins likes to use romplers, you can hear it in his music although he does an exceptional job at it. Romplers seem to have no problem achieving that smooth-Roland type sound.
Kevin Saunderson insisted on only using a real TR-808 back in the techno heyday of the late 80's but that's a sound you don't hear anymore, TR-808's are now associated with electro. on 2/6/03 5:30 PM, ::) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > most keyboard that play back "lifelike" sounds is a rompler > > rompler meaning the data is stored in a ROM or read only memory > > you hit a key, it plays the sound of a piano. > > different than a true synthesize, in that a synthesize does just what you'd > think: synthesize. > > > reply offlist if you'd like me to elaborate