<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 12:29 AM, Paul Davis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul@linuxaudiosystems.com">paul@linuxaudiosystems.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
take a listen to lou reed's metal machine music or pat metheny's zero<br>
tolerance for silence or any of boyd rice's stuff and then imagine<br>
that its the first demo you ever came across of this crazy new thing<br>
they call an "electric guitar". next you'd be telling me that the<br>
guitar is not usable as a way to make music that people want to hear<br></blockquote><div><br>Without having watched the videos you mention: I've had that "oh cooool" response to a lot of the mobile / tablet apps, I've never yet had the "wauw, that will be useful to me to create better music" response. Then again I own a normal phone, and no tablet. Maybe a bit more exposure would get me hooked. <br>
<br>@Leigh: <br>Point taken about the "played on the radio".<br>In a sense what society thinks about the music I create doesn't really make a difference either: What matters is if it sounds like I want it to. If it does, I'm happy. If it doesn't, then I'll either work on it more, or get frustrated. My experience of touch-interfaces (bar hardware xy controllers) has been pretty frustrating, hence I don't want to use them :)<br>
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Making music is the reason that I code, the reason that I use the interfaces I do, to try and achieve my goals. If the interface doesn't support me *creatively*, I'm not going to want to use it. That's actually the reason that I'm not currently using Ableton Live, its workflow doesn't match the way I would like to create music (although it's w/flow is much closer than most other software)<br>
<br>Regarding the predictablity: I don't understand why somebody would use that tool to create the noises they did. So I did assume that the tool isn't providing the output they hoped for. Perhaps I should assume its *exactly* what they wanted. Either way the tool will reproduce the same output given the same input: I'm not doubting the software's capabilites. But I'm talking about interfaces here. Did the user have enough control while interacting to achieve what they wanted? I dont think so, but I could well be wrong.<br>
<br>I'll try get some touchscreen time and see where that takes me :) -Harry<br></div></div>