General Music Chat

There are many that would say that technology is the best thing that ever happened to music. There are an equal amount of people I believe that would say it is the worst thing to ever happen to the musician. Software is replacing the human factor except for the engineers. The future is bright for them. They will become the new writers and performers. You may think that they will never be able to replace the Live performance. Don't fool yourself. The future of music is Software.
Totally fabricated tunes of any genre you want and the customers will suck it up because it will be perfect and all they've ever heard. You know. I run into kids that have'nt heard any Led Zep, or Deep Purple or Steve Miller or many others. They know Britney and Justin though. It's a shame but if you look close I think you will agree.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdDtXEzj ... re=related

For me technology lets me do things faster, especially editing and mixing, which saves me money. Software will never replace humans, but it can make mundane jobs easier.

And don't discount the younger generations; I meet many young people who are huge fans of music done decades before they were born. Sure there are people who like Britney and Justin, and yes they use Autotune but really everyone does. If you choose not to, great.

I think in 2021 your seat next to the engineer in studio is empty.
What do you other guys think.

Down with the humans Down with the humans Down with the humans Down with the humans

Yeah. Technocrap is alive! However, emotion, touch and other human input will have to be weeded out eventually, or it will ruin the sterile clean perfected music.

Humans are imperfect Humans are imperfect Humans are imperfect

Just kidding.

Down with the humans Down with the humans Down with the humans Down with the humans

Adapt or die! Change is the only constant in the universe. Become one with the Borg!

The Borg were controled and not independant. They do resemble the future of music though.

I agree with Jimmy. Good music never dies. I grew up listening and playing the late 60's early 70's stuff. To me, nothing today even come close to that era.

This is my favorite performance of all time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_n_P40s ... re=related

Aphex Twin is the engineer

You are right, old music will never die. It should become more
valuble because the pile of new music will get much bigger than the
pile of old music. We are talking about new and future music here and
the fact that individual musicianship will decline more and more over
time due to tech. Before you know it Kurt Cobain will be thought of like Jimi H. as an old memory of greatness if not already.

You can always jam with Shimon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm9R05PMHDM

Kurt was already considered great while he was alive, as was Jimi. Their deaths only increased their legend.

You know, people said the same thing about the synthesizer when it came out, and while it may have put some musicians out of work, it gave others a job. Most technophobes are old people, so to avoid that demographic you shouldn't hate technology.

I dont hate it as you assume. I recognize it as you should.

When I was in recorded engineering at Memphis State back in the early 80s, we had a state of the art 24 track tape based studio. A few years ago I bought a little Roland 16 track digital unit that put that place to shame and allowed me to do my own recording and mastering.

Hey I love change, Im hopeful that there will always be a human element involved with the making of music. Nothing moves me more than a live rocking band. I just dont think that is going to go away.

Classical Music is still performed and recorded live, so what makes you think that rock will die. I for one dont.

I say embrace whatever comes your way to make the making of music quicker and easier.

Right on brother John!

KLUGMO, I see your point but I don't see it happening as a whole. Being a musician means different things to different people. It's not just about making the music. What's happening now is nothing more than the average joe musician who would never be heard otherwise having the tools and an easy way to put their music out there via the Internet. Everybody is a musician these days. You don't even have to play an instrument. The real world music scene has changed but it's still out there and alive. Being a musician to me is more than buying a bunch of software, making perfect but sterile recordings with your pocket band in your bedroom and putting them up for sale on places like Soundclick for 60 cents a tune.