21 Dec
2005
21 Dec
'05
1:12 p.m.
I'm curious about this. What kind of musical
decisions are pre-made by
commercial software for the user?
quite a few. in the case of something like ableton live, the
composition process is distilled down to turning on and off
bar-quantized loops, and slathering on FX. the McDonalds equivalent of
slow food...
or take something like Fruity Loops, which singlehandedly dictates the
stylistic signature of many recent UK beat-producers like Ruff
Sqwad...
i guess the argument could be made for being able to override the
defaults, but its sort of like digging a canal, people will put up
some trees here and there, or paint their boat red...but its still
going down the canal...