> I'm curious about this. What kind of musical decisions are pre-made by > commercial software for the user? quite a few. in the case of something like ableton live, the composition process is distilled down to turning on and off bar-quantized loops, and slathering on FX. the McDonalds equivalent of slow food... or take something like Fruity Loops, which singlehandedly dictates the stylistic signature of many recent UK beat-producers like Ruff Sqwad... i guess the argument could be made for being able to override the defaults, but its sort of like digging a canal, people will put up some trees here and there, or paint their boat red...but its still going down the canal...
