23 Jan
2003
23 Jan
'03
10:12 a.m.
Daniel James wrote:
yeah... is it an elitist thing, or is it simply that apps are written by
coders rather than musicians a lot of the time?... i know only of a few
coders who *are* professional musicians (most of them reside on this list :)
I've used Reason on a Mac, and believe that
emulating all those rack units is
a macho thing that has little to do with making music and everything to do
with the transfer of arcane knowledge. Why have a visual representation of a
real patchbay when kaconnect does the same job in a way that anyone could
understand, and with a minimum of resources used?
very interesting point....
i'm wondering if its possible to code a front end to kaconnect,
something like Tksysv - where you just select what you want connecting
to what, in boxes, rahter than wih all those wires everywhere that i'm
gonna lose track of sooner or later!!!
yes, i agree, its a kind of macho thing!
having seen this at work in the studio frequently as a woman composer ;-)
there seems to be a fashion for this sort of stuff
now... i dont find it
very helpful
Maybe audio apps that are straightforward will bring people to digital music
production that have been too intimidated before. There's still a barrier
between artists on the one hand, and engineers and producers on the other -
that arcane knowledge again. I've heard that in the 1960's, few artists were
allowed in the control room - Pink Floyd had to fight for the right to edit
their own music at EMI.
Now computers are ubiquitous in the first world, in theory any musician should
be able to make their own CD - but I know from my own experience that many
still don't know how. They imagine that they'd need to buy thousands of
pounds worth of equipment, and then face the difficult task of learning it
all - because they anticpate that computers aren't intuitive.
and thats where the mac world seems to take over & sucker everyone
in.... because it looks so 'simple'... remember the old ad 'i'm not a
computer person?'...
when the fact is they end up using exactly the same tools as everyone
else....
its not actually hard for a musician to translate to computers - it just
takes some self-belief.... musicians, generally, have a good head for
mathematics, you have to to be able to write music.... and a good head
for languages too... its just overcoming that barrier of 'ooh, i couldnt
be technical'....
my former teacher in Holland - from back when i was an instrumental
composer - has recently switched to using Sibelius to print all his work
instead of the laborious hand-copying he has always done, and is
marketing all of his music on the web. he, when i first met him, was
most definately *not* a computer person - probably still isn't ! so if
he can do it.... ;-)
best
m~
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