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Fredrik
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Registered: Apr 2009
Posts: 204 |
David Whittaker
he did really good music
He used much of the original sid drums and had much experimental sounds in his tunes.
Even if he made many short "loops" he did them intresstning and with much fantasy
He was a very GREAT composer. |
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CreaMD
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 3051 |
I love his stuff and can't remember any shitty stuff that I heard from him, please give some examples. ... and I think money desn't kill kreativity and enthusiasm. Self-satisfaction does. |
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STE'86
Registered: Jul 2009
Posts: 274 |
seriously, who would give a fck about being a "great composer" when you were making £500-£1000 a week in 1989?
the music industry in that era wouldn't take you seriously as a composer working on computer games anyway.
so being "great" to a bunch of nerdy computer geeks wouldn't be high on my agenda either :D |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11360 |
i dont see whats so bad about it either. most people i have met "in the industry" are in it for the money really :) |
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algorithm
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 705 |
As a composer, he did some nice tunes. However his SID driver was not really that advanced. |
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STE'86
Registered: Jul 2009
Posts: 274 |
granted, personally I am not a fan of Whittaker's stuff, it far too much "3 chords and repeat" for my taste. I think he was vastly overpaid for what he did that I know of specifically.
Never the less he was really the only musician at the time that could provide multi platform music and he milked it. Fair play, I would have in his shoes.
The reason he could do this was that his player never pushed the SID, and was realistically a SID version of the same Pokey and AY/yamaha player he used for other platforms. I think to not realise this is to miss the reason why he was so successful in the '88-early 90s period where most others were "better" with much more complex drivers were far less successful. |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11360 |
its basically the same thing with chris hülsbecks "musix" system (which has players for various consoles/handhelds) :) |
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