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<blockquote data-quote="John Norris" data-source="post: 26088" data-attributes="member: 155">Re: RIP Roger NicholsI was gratified to hear on NPR this afternoon an interview with Donald Fagen about Roger Nichols, with Fagen speaking with respectful admiration for the man and his engineering improvisatory genius - Fagen gave the example of the drum sequencer, with Fagen wishing for a drum machine to sound as good as a real drummer, since he was having difficulty with getting the &quot;Hey Nineteen&quot; drum part to be played like he wanted. Nichols told him &quot;give me three weeks&quot;, and sure enough, he invented a good-to-go keyboard triggered drum sequencer, a couple of years before the MIDI standard was introduced.Nice to know that a wider audience was informed of Nichols&#039;s contributions to advancing audio engineering in general, and specifically as the man who played such an important part in making the excellent sounding 1970s Steely Dan recordings.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Norris, post: 26088, member: 155"] Re: RIP Roger Nichols I was gratified to hear on NPR this afternoon an interview with Donald Fagen about Roger Nichols, with Fagen speaking with respectful admiration for the man and his engineering improvisatory genius - Fagen gave the example of the drum sequencer, with Fagen wishing for a drum machine to sound as good as a real drummer, since he was having difficulty with getting the "Hey Nineteen" drum part to be played like he wanted. Nichols told him "give me three weeks", and sure enough, he invented a good-to-go keyboard triggered drum sequencer, a couple of years before the MIDI standard was introduced. Nice to know that a wider audience was informed of Nichols's contributions to advancing audio engineering in general, and specifically as the man who played such an important part in making the excellent sounding 1970s Steely Dan recordings. [/QUOTE]

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