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Originally Posted by ProEtContra
With today's virtual instruments, audio editing programs...there's no limit...
But what's about Composing music, how to create new song/melody/theme...? Composing music with computers is almost norm? Pro Et Contra?
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my own views on the issue....
composing with computers is not the norm. musicians using computers to compose on is. there's a subtle but significant difference in those two statements. the human composer is still the source of the music, the rhythms and melodies still originate from within the person sitting behind the computer.
i think it's foolish to limit oneself to archaic methods in hopes of maintaining the 'purity' of an ideal from one's youth; it's a recipe for stagnation. a lot of the negativity surrounding technology in music stems more from poor musicians shifting the blame for their own shortcomings onto the technology they believed would elevate their skill beyond what it truly was.
pro et contra...
pro - it makes if far simpler for the composer to get immediate results from their music. modern software applications allow for rough playbacks of all the instruments almost instantly. automation can also be beneficial when it comes to mixing large numbers of tracks. i've even heard of systems that will write out tablature for guitar and bass parts. depending on how well that actually works it would make it a lot simpler for the composer to generate sheet music for their band. it also allows for the creation of music that is beyond the capacity for a single human to play during the creative process but that can be subdivided afterwards for performance (see
alarm will sound and their covers of aphex twin material)
contra - lots of poor musicians think the default settings are good enough and then blame the technology for the fact that they ran out of steam a long time ago (if they even had any to begin with). on the other hand it also allows for some people to incorrectly call themselves musicians because they plotted the notes for a virtual instrument with no capacity to actually reproduce the music on a real instrument regardless of complexity. then there's also the public misconception that music created with any form of technology involved is somehow inferior or less pure than traditional methods.