In a message dated 27/07/02 20:15:01 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< also protools is used for much more than pitch...think of it like a word processor where you can cut & paste things in different places...i kind of see protools as the equivalent of using a computer as opposed to a typewriter...its just a computer program that has become pretty standard in the world of recording... >> Sure, Kate, I know Pro Tools isn't only used for tweaking, and I wouldn't want to sound like a Luddite. It's only a tool, and is in itself neither a good thing nor a bad thing. My big reservation is that it is widely being put to a particularly unappetising (to me) use by people like Max Miller - for whom fans of Britney Spears have much to be grateful, and who to me is roughly on a par with Old Nick. This involves, as you say, literally cutting and pasting bits of songs, chord sequences and so on, often with the result that the songs sound like virtual anagrams of each other. Can anyone spot much difference between Hit Me Baby One More Time and Oops I Did It Again?? This type of hack hit construction (I can't even bring myself to call it songwriting) would be going on regardless of whether Pro Tools were around to facilitate it - it just might not be so easy, and people might have to, you know, use their imagination or something... That said, if I discovered that , say, Goldfrapp use Pro Tools in their songwriting, I'd have to hold up my hands and say "it's a fair cop." Azeem in London NP: Robin Holcomb's new album - just wonderful!
