Has all this technology changed for the better?

[TechMouse]

If 20 years on we were still all making tracks exclusively using 303s and 909s the sound would get tired. People would get bored and the crowds and fans would dwindle.

Really?

The guitar / bass / drums combo has been around for for the best part of a century and there are still people pushing boundaries. Rock music may not be your cup of tea, but there is loads of great stuff about.

The impact of your ideas far surpasses the impact of your technology. At the end of the day it's just an enabler. Computers will get faster, technology will get "better", and along with it the scope of what you do will broaden exponentially. But someone with talent will still coax something belting out of ReBirth given a few hours and the right inspiration.

[Jay Pace]

Really?

Yes. The role techno plays requires that it changes and progresses. Use of technology is intrinsic to the sound, and makes techno what it is.

If technology froze and all techno used the same sounds forever it wouldn't really be techno anymore.

Well, not to me at any rate.