11 Dec
2007
11 Dec
'07
5:36 p.m.
On Tuesday 11 December 2007 16:24:15 bradley newton haug wrote:
you can try all you want to 'fix it in the
mix' but you can't polish a
turd. If you can't play, no engineering on the planet will save you.
In your opinion, of course. My own opinion is that production and
Not so, better musicians can help.
Hey, basically, at this point, musically, I might be able to write some
lyrics. That's about it. If I am lucky. On a good day.
But I have ideas in my head with no good way to get them out.
Can't get a tune out of my head vocally. Can't play, though I keep trying in a
low key way to learn. Any natural gifts I have seem to be in other areas.
So, if I can find tools to help me get my ideas out of me and into a form
where others who can play and sing can more easily run with them, I think
those tools might just be welcome.
Granted, the recordings of any music I might make that way may leave a lot to
be desired, but I don't see why they could not serve as the germ for
something better.
arrangement are more important to the impact of a
piece than the
skill of its players, with composition being the most important of
all. You'll say I'm wrong, and you will be wrong.
watch a high school shakespeare rendition sometime.
But neither of our opinions matter to people who
are looking at Linux
audio tools and finding them lacking. Saying "That feature that I've
never heard of sucks, and if you use it, your style of music sucks"
doesn't come off as an indictment of commercialism so much as it
resembles sour grapes.
if you have to step input your music and rely on groove quant to make it
sound
'real' you are speaking from a massive musical disadvantage. We've been
making music
for tens of thousands of years, it seems to me you're the one blaming your
tools.
If you're happy with Linux audio being as
limited as a glorified tape
recorder, that's fine, but some of us have higher ambitions.
again, if you can't record music with a 'record' and 'stop' button.
Nothing can really help you.
Can linux replace a windows or OSX rig that a schmuck can load up, slap
some loops on, use factory presets on
their softsynths and press a magic button to fix their amateurish keyboard
noodlings?
no
I dream of something that I could sing known songs to and that could
then "calibrate" to my poor voice (I can't carry a tune) and then adjust the
pitch to match the known notes.... Then, look for patterns in how I am off
and learn my failings... Then, listen to new, unknown, tunes and adjust those
according to the learned patterns. And then notate the melody. Then I could
listen to that and see if it is what is in my head, let me adjust it on
screen. Then sing again and match the now known melody...
Not a bad dream. Perhaps some day... Or perhaps some day something may click
inside my head and I might learn to sing.
can linux be used to make music? yes
-bradley newton haug
> Rob
all the best,
drew