I find it amusing ... all this talk about a product that's not out.  People
excited by something they've not heard (it is a MUSIC creation tool is it
not?).  Oh yea.. I've heard the mp3 demos as well... about as charming as
the demos in your current hardware synths ya?  It's similar to the hype that
folks (myself included) have lumped on Max/MSP.  I recently saw Jan Jelinek
(1/2 of Farben, one-whole of Gramm) perform using not only hardware, but it
appeared to be very archaic.  This taught me a very valuable lesson about
worshipping a false "God" (hardware), when this "God" is truly in the music.
(insert standard disclaimer here about how tools have shaped modern music in
their own right... yada yada yada).

Peace, hugs, love, and blech!

Ryan Heard

-----Original Message-----
From: Kent williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 9:25 AM
To: Craig Stodolenak
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [313] OT: Propellerheads:Reason Soft Synth


On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Craig Stodolenak wrote:
>  most of your dedicated digital gear can be trashed in favor of
> it being in your computer.  Later rather than sooner, your analog
> gear will find the same place, after being digitally modelled.
>
Great! then i can buy it all at firesale prices.

The thing people need to learn is that when it comes to music making and
sound production, nothing cool is ever obsolete.

> The next revolution won't be a piece of software, though.  It'll be a
> new human/computer interface that will allow you to manipulate
> digital things more intuitively.  Our mind and muscles operate in the
> analog, and that's the rub.
>

The user interface of the piano, violin, and trumpet (for example) are going
to take a long time to top.   Of course you actually have to PRACTICE them.
Even things that are 'easy' to use are hard to use artfully.


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