IRC-Galleria

"In the beginning there was the monophonic analogue synth. Mono begat poly. Several people begat MIDI. MIDI begat multitimbrality, and sampling begat sample and synthesis. And it came to pass that some bright spark looked at this abundance of begattery and said, 'Yea verily, why not create a vessel that combines a keyboard, a sample-based synth, some drum sounds and a sequencer, that just one person might make a mighty noise by playing and recording songs with a single box?'. And lo, there was born The First Workstation and there was generally much rejoicing (except, that is, among the Musicians' Union who gnashed their teeth, saying that such creations stole work from the Heavenly choirs)."

Sound on Sound 05/2006