• TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
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    8 days ago

    How do you feel about other tech-based tools making an artists life easier, like sequencers, VSTs, DAWs, and the like? I see it as maybe another tool to use.

    • Pat_Riot@lemmy.today
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      8 days ago

      With all of the tools you described the entire creative process is still done by a human musician. Sequencers have to be programmed. VSTs are just instruments and they DAWs have simply replaced expensive studio equipment so poors like me can produce a decent sounding track.

      I don’t want to see generated images or AI coded video games either.

      • reiseno_@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        8 days ago

        Beethoven and all the classical composers and musicians are spinning in their graves. Music should be made by humans with instruments, not boxes with electricity in them! /s

        At the end of the day it’s another tool that makes the process easier. Not only does the user have significant artistic control but it is a great way to lower the bar for people to work on something they feel a responsibility for- which is a great way to encourage more traditional musical skills.

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          8 days ago

          Beethoven would have loved DAWs and synthesizers. He would have vomited at the thought of a machine plying HIS trade autonomously.

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      8 days ago

      None of those tools has ever made a full releasable track for anyone, just like the tape machine never created music out of nowhere.

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        8 days ago

        Arguably a lot of these tools are designed specifically to reduce the effort a human has to put in to create the art they want to make too.