-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Fons Adriaensen schrieb: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 08:30:32PM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote: > The second is why one would reduce the natural > rythm of any piece of music to a regular beat. Good question and most of those, who do the above-mentioned beat-adding to gregorian chants etc do not ask that question. Or they come up with answers like: because the cd-buyers may like it... But there *can* be better answers to this question I could think of. Such as: to destroy and distort a music in order to create a very new one. I never heard a successfull experiment like this performed with gregorian chants though... > One reason can be that this is an aesthetic > feature in itself. There are some musical > genres that are firmly based on this idea. > > Another reason - without wanting to comment > on the OP's musical abilities which I don't > know - is just incompetence - the inability > to handle a piece of music unless it has a > simple regular rythmic structure. I too will not question the abilities of all those, who ask for such assitance but I dare to estimate, that 9 out of 10 users of beat-detection-automatisms do not use such tools to widen their own atistic horizons but to narrow the horizon of the music they'd like to use as an accompainment for their playing. > What would you think if someone were asking > 'is there any program that can simplify the > harmony of a song so I can play a three-note > bass line to it' ?? I can play a 3-note bassline to *any* piece of music - and I do not need any assistance by any software to do so ;-) Seriously: to have some comforts and automagic is cool and can have a very positive impact on a musical work. A sofware for beat-measurement can help to analyse a give piece of music to find ways to add something constructive to it. But all that "Get our 20000-loopsample-DVD/our 200-prograde-preset Guitarampemulation/ our easy-klick-your-hit sequencer and become a big star in no time and whithout any learning-trouble!" is emberracing nonsense made for consumes, not for artists. Basicly everything, that makes decisions, an artist should make him/herself is a toy, not an instrument. best regs HZN -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmTT2EACgkQ1Aecwva1SWMhEQCfXy4H7PUBwd55zNbccKT2zduH mm4An26hqAnQ0WtwJsexQGyM0ovh25kA =m9Rh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
