On 3/27/07, Thor Teague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If your argument is that gear doesn't make you creative or not
creative, how can the next thing out of your mouth (or fingers, as it
were,) be "So you limit yourself to xyz technology" ?
Does gear matter or does creativity matter?
if you have the ability to skillfully play many instruments, gear
would almost not matter at all. you could just play whatever you
wanted. however, most electronic musicians do not have that ability
(really, few traditional musicians do!). but electronic musicians are
forced to work with things that will do jobs for them. how those
things which do these jobs go about their function is what is
important.
the hardest thing to do is write a great song. good arrangements, good
melodies, good rhythms dont come easily, even to all time great
artists, as proven by the fact that not every song they write is
golden. and when time and energy on a track that should be devoted to
those things instead gets devoted to extraneous nonsense that modern
software opens up, the parts that really matter suffer. so you spent
30 hours on that synth sound. good for you. its in a track that is
monotonous and uninteresting at best. so in the end, who cares? maybe
some studio nerds, but really, their grip on music is weak at best
IMO.
tom
