John Coleman wrote:
But, couldn't you also just keep taking that arguement back against
practically ANY new musical technology that was invented?
Do people REALLY need more than 2 tracks to make ANY music? Humans only
have 2 ears, and most consumer playback hardware only has 2 tracks,
2 Channels? Quite a few have 5 now (Ears I mean).
The argument about tracks is pointless.
It's all about choice.
Just because a computer offers you infinite tracks doesn't mean you have
to use them.
Plus it's a software design choice it has no affect on the sound.
If you put your drums on one track or 10,000, the song is gonna sound
the same.
However it's often very convenient to be able to lay out your drums on
individual tracks so you can apply affects/control volume etc. to them
individually.
It's all about choice.
Heck, it's enabled people to get rid of the concept of a "band" alogether.
You've got people sitting in rooms alone with racks of synths and
sequencers tapping out little patterns and eschewing any kind of
collaboration or real performance, people who couldn't actually PERFORM
the songs if they had to.
I think there is a common misconception that producing music with a
computer is easy. Making music in general is easy, anyone can pick up a
guitar practice for a week and make up a three cord song.
Making good music is the difficult part - if Dale's computer does work
by just pressing return he's lucky.
If you're good at using an instrument/synth it doesn't imply you'll make
good music, and vice versa.
I don't have a problem with any of this personally, just as I don't have
any problem with using computers and softsynths. I'm just playing devil's
addvocate and extrapolating out the point to a further degree.
Ditto. You post wasn't literal, was it?
Besides, if you REALLY want to point to the villian for the sad state of
music today, I would suggest pointing to the internet. There have always
been tons of people making really BAD music, but before the internet it
was so much more difficult to distribute it and share it with the world,
so it was easier to avoid and ignore. Sure, there are more people making
bad music now than ever before, but were it not for the internet we
wouldn't have to hear so much of it. :)
I say stop the internet! The 313 should use snail mail - imagine that...
I think I'd be thankful for junk mail.
-Mike
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