4 Nov
2010
4 Nov
'10
3:13 p.m.
On Wednesday 03 November 2010 19:28:29 Leigh Dyer wrote:
On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 21:24 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton
wrote:
To me, one of the problems comes down to the split between musical
appreciation and creation and the technical abilities needed to perform what
is imagined / conceived.
Imagine if a novelist or poet had to practice for years to gain mastery over
the pencil or keyboard in the same way a musician has to practice to gain
mastery over their instrument.
Tech that makes it easier to produce what is conceived are no more dangerous
to good music than is to move to a pencil from a stone chisel and hammer.
Just a thought to ponder and improve on or shoot down.
Mark Knecht wrote:
Definitely -- in fact, I'm sitting here at the office thinking about how
I could do something similar under Linux. I'm thinking:
* run audio from mic in to Rakarrack's pitch-to-MIDI converter
* run the MIDI in to a synth
* run the synth audio and the mic audio in to a Rakarrack's vocoder as
carrier and formant, respectively
Sounds like a hell of a lot of fun to me! I can't wait to try it out :)
I don't think there's any point worrying about music production getting
"too easy" or "too accessible" -- the ship probably sailed on that
when
Tascam released the Portastudio, or when Dave Smith and friends created
MIDI. People have been making trite music with the best equipment money
can by for years, and others have been making interesting music with
toys and junk for just as long. If this helps people express musical
ideas that they'd been unable to express beforehand, then that's
fantastic. What is the Windows world coming to?
http://www.native-instruments.com/#/en/products/producer/powered-by-rea
ktor/the-mouth/?content=1412&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_
campaign=The+Mouth
It's just a piece of good (or bad? I'm not sure because I'm not a real
expert) marketing... Nothing you couldn't do with sooperlooper a bunch
of effects and, maybe, some hardware controllers... Or you could also
set everything up in Pd...
THanks
Leigh
> Bests
> Lorenzo
all the best,
drew