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[Kesa]

And this is what we have forgotten after 25years! New technology brings creativity to a larger audience. The Amiga introduced me to music... Without the tracker I would never have been able to learn how to compose, arrange and even build my own sounds. My gut instinct is distrustful of the music-made-easy of the iPad, but I'm just being old and outdated

OK i know this may be off topic but....

Imho it depends on what you called music. There is a problem with music being made easy in that it becomes harder and harder to seperate the talent from the talentless. Singers who are tone deaf are suddenly good singers. Talentless popstars like brittney spears are now being called artists etc, etc. In that regard i think creation should be a challenge and not have it put into your lap by using an ipad.  

On the otherhand having a studio on your computer makes a lot of sense for a professional musican. Professional studios cost hundreds of thousands to buy or rent and having the equivalent on your pc for a few thousand dollars is a huge benefit to everyone involved. Why spend all that money on a professional tv studio when you can buy a video toaster A2000?

Sorry for going off topic

[Kesa]

Well, I wouldn't let a guitarist near anything technical... That's why you have synth guys in a band

Until your 'friends' unplug your keyboard and don't tell you and you find out an hour into the show

[Kesa]

The abilities of the ipad in turning crap into talent has obvious limitations as seen below when someone tried to 'talentise' Doomy's smash hit single 'Only Amiga' :hammer:

[Kesa]

Samplers were once evil hardware for talentless wannabes, so were computer based sequencers, so were virtual instruments, same for time stretching, pitch shifting, auto tune and other effects done in software.

For the last few years a 100% software based studio has been possible due to increasing hardware speeds, this in turn led to the reality of the portable studio due to laptop technology.

A tablet today has the performance of a top spec laptop from a few years ago and with it this opens new areas of innovation and experimentation for producers and musicians just like all the evil new products that came before them such as multitrack tape recorders and guitars that plug into the mains.

Which is exactly what i said in a post yesterday. Maybe you should get your eyes checked and stop repeating posts.

[Kesa]

Nothing like the PC world of the 80s or the Amiga, we didn't walk down the street or sit on a train with an A1000 & monitor under our arm or sitting on our lap to try and look cool... :lol:

So everyone DIDN'T do that? I used to do it because i thought everyone did it and i didn't want to be different

P.S. i use to pretend it was a gettoblaster and thought i was as cool as s**t

[Kesa]

Technology already exists that can propel totally talentless musically retarded emotionally brain dead morons to massive success, you only have to look at the musically inept "Black Eyed Peas" as a prime example. They can't make music and they are horrible live... The general public love them...

But I've toured with musicians much much more talented than myself, who have never even achieved what little success I did...

I guess popular arts have always been this way, technology will always allow the talentless to suceed, but it will also be used by the brilliant to make something that will be remembered for the rest of civilisation

The black eyed peas will be forgotten tomorrow, because they are shit... But other truely tallented artists using the same technology will be remembered.






*disclaimer I don't like the black eyed peas.

Please provide examples of these truely talented artists that will be remembered. I want to listen

The first artist that comes into my head are the Chemical Brothers and maybe Lady Gaga

Overrated would be the Prodigy - they are shit.

[Kesa]

I likes them words...

All this talk about music has reminded me of a question that I've often asked folk but never had an answer too...

Why does no-one invent new musical instruments anymore, I mean pianos, guitars the sax etc.. were all invented gawd knows how long ago, but other than synths why has no-one ever invented a new musical instrument that has caught on like the afore-mentioned... :confused:

(Always puzzled me has that...

That's easy. It's because everything has already been invented. There's nothing more to invent. It's like maths - all maths has been discovered. So i guess the only thing to do now is not to try and invent but find different ways of using what we already have. In Australia there is a Ukulele revival going on so i guess that's a new way to use an instrument that has been around forever. Really quite funny when you think about it because it's not even Australian!

[Kesa]

I didn't know you were from Australia

Actually i'm not on the Gold Coast i'm in Newcastle

So do you think it is just a fad or is it going to stay?

I prefer recorders myself