Wegman wrote:Irminsul,
Actually what you speak of is my point, in reverse. Mate, one thing I have come to terms with is that you and I will approach an issue from completely different directions. This is not a bad thing, just a challenging thing for me when trying to explain it with you in mind. 
Your comments are exactly the point I was making but in reverse. Technology should enable those of less gifted nature to produce far more then they could using the tools of the day of the composers. For instance. No ones tunes should ever be out of time because we have metronomes and drum machines. We have software that will score your tune for you. We have recording software. We have effects processors, and loops, and computer programs and on.
I am not saying it enables everyone to now write a symphony on par with the composers I noted, which were not chosen at random by the way, but it does make it easier. You don't need to know how to play piano, you can punch it up on your computer via midi. I having a scoring software that will play the notes on whatever instrument I choose as I score it. I can then play it back and if it doesn't sound right or I have a note out of place I will hear it and then correct it.
What I am saying is that this technology should produce far more interesting and dynamic music. I mean I think of a ground breaking album and I have to go back to like Dark Side of the Moon. Think of what they did on that album by cutting and splicing. I read an article about the tune Money and what was involved to do it. It's mind bending.
I don't know, maybe I expect to much.
Technology is an enabling tool. That's all. But if your music has no musicality, no inspiration, no soul, it doesn't matter what technology you have. It won't make MUSIC.
Yes you can have a piano patch, a flute patch, a guitar patch in your software arsenal. But lets be real here...note on note off with some dynamics will NEVER take the place of a human playing those instruments. I got into this with another user here who said he had a good piano patch, and because he had that, his computer is a musical instrument. I just about spat my coffee all over the monitor. see, a piano...like your guitar, wegman...is finely crafted, subtle physical instrument which responds in thousands of levels of dynamic to the person playing it. The music you produce from your hands is direct. It is the pure thing. Now you can use a computer to do all sorts of effects and what not...and of course you can use it for electronic instrumentation....but to reiterate, it will never replace the physical playing of a fine instrument, and it will never create music. That quality is up to the mind of the composer.
Technology is not a modern day invention. It is a concept that has always been with us. In Bach's day, it consisted of a large array of wind driven pipes called an organ, and various ensembles of stringed and winded instruments developed in the centuries before his life. He never tried to reinvent the organ. He wrote music, and used the instruments of his time (his technology) to produce that music for living people. For posterity, he used the technology of the pen and paper to preserve it for posterity. None of this instruments, or volumes of paper would have amounted to a hill of poop without his music behind them.
And the same concept stands today. Without music in it, the technology falls flat.
