On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 18:12 +0000, c wrote: > > 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... > you can a *lot* further than either of these examples. go watch a demo or actual use of the Stylus RMX plugin. you can generate roughly 16-20 channel rythmn mix for a track in a few minutes by just pressing buttons that pick certain style constraints. it made me puke, but i know that there are people who write music for a living, not as a means of creative expression, and for them, tools like this are actually incredibly helpful. --p
