Re: Mac? Linux PC?

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On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 14:10:08 -0800 (PST)
Renato Fabbri <renatoftato@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> 
> --- Brad Fuller <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Rob wrote:
> > > On Sun March 12 2006 11:48, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> > >   
> > >> Most of the composers I know just use pencil and
> > paper.
> > >> Usually it is staff paper.
> > >>     
> > >
> > > Believe it or not, I've only ever known one of
> > those, and he 
> > > still did most of his work via MIDI.  (I notated
> > on staff paper 
> > > myself a lot in high school, too, but that was
> > before the Amiga 
> > > came out....)
> > >   
> > but, if you are trained on that, as most of us are,
> > that's what you do.
> > Even now writing on paper for me is superior to any
> > other composing
> > software. There is no contest.
> 
> I write music on staff and compose electronics on
> computers without thinking of a single note. Different
> things to do different things. Of course, it is nice
> and ok to like bananas better than pineapples, or inverse.

To me the invention of MIDI was the opening of a door. For very many
years I struggled with notation on paper, and achieved very little. I
was physically incapable of realising my ideas on a keyboard with
anything more than the simplest of melodies and the most basic
accompaniments. Dots on paper simply didn't convey anything to me - in
spite of 5 years formal piano lessons as a child.

Once I had a sequencer however. I could immediately just *play* the
melody, and part at a time add in counter-melodies, rhythm patterns and
anything else I wanted. The few pieces I've put up for people here to
hear would never have been done without. On my website I even refer to
that with 'The Crystal Ship'. I spent so many years of utter
frustration with the musical 'image' quite clear in my head but
absolutely no way to realise it. I also believe that having that image
there was probably sort of blocking me from developing other ideas.

-- 
F

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