[linux-audio-dev] Tuning

[james at dis-dot-dat.net]

On Sun, 30 Jan, 2005 at 10:39AM -0600, Jan Depner spake thus:
> On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 06:53, james at dis-dot-dat.net wrote:
> > On Sat, 29 Jan, 2005 at 10:36AM -0600, Jan Depner spake thus:
> > > On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 08:41, james at dis-dot-dat.net wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 28 Jan, 2005 at 05:09PM -0600, Jan Depner spake thus:

<SNIP!>

> 
>     Actually, one of the reasons that I really enjoy this list is that I
> get my eyes opened occasionally.  This is a good thing (TM)  ;-)
> 
>     Don't worry about speed with an instrument - it's way overrated. 
> Less is definitely more in that department.  I didn't start playing
> guitar until I was 20 which I thought was very late.  After 30 years I
> think I'm finally beginning to get the hang of it ;-)  I wish I
> understood trackers, sequencers, MIDI, soft synths...  I was thinking
> the other day that the next big musical genius may well not be able to
> play any instrument - that the music may just be in his/her head. 
> Without those kind of tools we would miss out on that.  When I was
> really young I was a flute playing jazz snob (if it didn't have a
> million key changes I wasn't impressed). 

Maybe you should try cheesetracker.  I find trackers to be a very
intuitive interface, but maybe that's because I come from a computer
science background.

> Now I like the Ramones :-) 

Hehe.  It's funny.  My favourites are people like Bread, Simon and
Garfunkel, Sam Cook and for more recent music, Snow Patrol, Portishead
and The Flaming Lips.

The music I make, however, is more like BT, Squarepusher, Aphex Twin,
Boards of Canada or Wagon Christ.

I don't think that there's a difference in the quality of the two
groups, but the latter doesn't require me to actually play an
instrument.  At least not in real time - I do tend to record midi
events at half tempo, because I just can't play what I want at the
speed that I want.

> For a while I felt the same way about making music without being able to
> play an instrument.  So, sorry for my immediate, knee jerk reaction to
> pitch correctors.



> Jan
> 
> 
> 

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