Rob Hubbard Editor (Page 1 of 2)

weird, its on c64? I love those falling arps.

Same reason Deadman used Tim Follin's driver for a few tracks I guess.  All custom drivers have their little quirks that make them unmistakable.  Hubbard's one is interesting because it's in the generation before wave tables became the norm.  So the instruments are defined more like a patch on a keyboard than the way we usually do them these days.   Also, as much as people try to emulate it, only Hubbard's player sounds like Hubbard's player.  There's something about the gating of that bass sound (heard in Crazy Comets & Commando) , the portamento fx slide in Monty on the Run's intro, and those Tom sounds are total trademark Rob Hubbard.  While you could log the settings to the sounds only Hubbard's player in it's pre-hard restart glory is going to have those little instrument breakups where sounds don't play exactly right each time.   Thinking about it, some of those are to do with how the note data is stored in the driver, it'll be interesting to see if he handles those.

Sorry, I went off on a driver rant there.

Interesting rant, 4mat
I guess it's good as an "archeological"  type experiment. But that's all.

That is interesting info and still relevant to today's music.
Such variations and quirks give a tune some "machine soul" which adds a much deeper layer of complexity to what you hear in the music.

Error and fallibility, not totally random either but rather with a chaotic non-linear pattern. I think it's part of what we enjoy when listening to a human performer.

IMHO we do well to study such things and try to incorporate them back into 'modern' technique.

it's intriguing if only because i hate the goattracker interface

i wonder how far it will get though
high hopes!