Citizen wrote:I’m progressively working my way through all of Ableton’s instruments, so as to familiarise myself with each one better.
I spent about an hour playing around with Electric last night, and with some of its presets, and my initial impression is that it is somewhat limited in the scope of sounds it can make.
Bascially it does little more than replicate a small range of sounds from an electric piano, and some tweaking of the tine and tone settings will create a sound more akin to a Rhodes organ.
Is that it?! Or is this instrument actually more diverse than I perceive it to be? And why wouldn’t I simply just use any or a number of plug-ins to acheive essetnially the same sound?
An acoustic guitar only sounds like an acoustic guitar, a bass a bass, a piano a piano. An electric piano sounds like an electric piano. If you're not into old R&B and 60's rock then it's not as useful, if you were you would prefer it over the others. A copy on other instruments wouldn't as faithfully replicate the harmonic changes when hit with a sharp attack etc.
I do find it odd to have to explain this? Are you that musically tunnel visioned that you never listen to old records or genres besides the electronic ones you like? Not meant as an attack just righteously curious? I've always found all forms of music to be intriguing. Go back to it on occasion, I don't own Suite, but the electric piano was similar to the one in Logic and I ended up using it far more than I thought I would. Not all sounds should pop out at you in a mix.
