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Old 10-20-2010, 11:42 AM   #136 (permalink)
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What discounts or at least detracts credibility from a computer being an instrument is the fact that in it's not you playing the notes as and when you want to play them, it's you giving the computer a schedule of when to play what note. What I mean by this is that, say on guitar you wanted to play a song, you'd have to play the right notes in the right way at the right time. On a computer you tell the computer what notes to play and then rearrange what time it plays the notes. You couldn't "play" a computer live in that way. This is talking about sequencing, rather than if by "computer" you mean more loosely, such as a synth pad or something
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