[Malte Müller]

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.

Easier is relative of course. We agree on that no music is exactly the same performed by different orchestras. But any orchestra performing a symphony by notes will have that symphony sound like that symphony despite differences in interpretation. There is of course no “original”.

But on synth and other stuff there technically is and any “different tiny parameter” is much more instantly recognizable and feel “wrong” easier. Again, nothing needs to be exactly the same.

(…) possibly because he’s worked with Carpenter and knows exactly what he did. It’s also not overly complicated music, with repeated ostinatos and clear chords.

Yeah, Vangelis was a better example for hard to re-create synth music.