Stevie Wonder Used Chuck Surack's Custom Brass Sample on Characters Album
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Sweetwater founder Chuck Surack recalls recording and programming custom digital audio samples for Kurzweil synthesizers in the 1980s.
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“I remember one time I brought in a trombone player, a trumpet player, and I played saxophone, and we made a brass section sound. There was not a section of brass in there. That sound ended up being used by Stevie Wonder on his character's album.”
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