Laurence Payne wrote:

(hank alrich) wrote:

To me, the e-drums have become different
instruments rather than inferior instruments.

Miles Davis is alleged to have replied to an interviewer who asked him,
"When does a synthesizer become a real instrument?" with, "As soon as a
composer writes a part for it".

And I wonder what he meant?

He meant that you need to keep practicing until you get it. g

Was he seeing synths just as cheap
imitators of real instruments?

Better read it again...

Or recognising that composers DO write parts for them now?

You've heard later period Miles Davis, haven't you?

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