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Originally Posted by Dom
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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A laptop paired with a midi controller could just as easily output to a PA, and be as equally real time as anything else. In fact, with it, you pretty much have by far the most cost effective musical instrument available.
Plus, I personally think there's an amazing quality, and variance of sounds that can be achieved through modern VSTs. It's really stunning how big of a wasted potential VST technology is at the moment.