[Nicolai P. Zwar]

I think even if Vangelis wrote down EXACTLY what tech and inputs he used, people wouldn’t be able to replicate the broad, intuitive, almost improvised way he played the synths.

This is true, which is why I am not talking about absolutes. I am talking about degrees. I am not taking the human out of the equation, no two performances of any piece of music are alike. My response was to Malte that it might be easier with an orchestra, which is what I objected to. Because it is easier for one person to recreate the same electronic sound of another person (especially if he’s got the same (type of) synthesizer), than it is for 100 people to recreate the same sound of 100 different people on 100 different instruments. That was my argument in context.