Quote Originally Posted by tocsin
Quote Originally Posted by dirty_bass
that`s a little narrow minded. The studio is an instrument.
Not in a way that needs to be sat down an analised while listening to a track. Programming a synth and sequencer is experimentation. I'm not slagging on any techno. But, I find the chinstroker stuff around the music to be irrelevant. If I'm not feeling it, that's it. Whereas, there's a lot of non-programmed music that takes significant practice which I also don't feel, but can respect the chinstroker stuff around it. Just about anyone here could go to school and learn production techniques that they can recreate on a machine with a little trial and error fairly quick. But, most people here would not be able to go to school and come out some fantastically gifted jazz fusion guitarist or classical violinist.
that's simply not true - at the very least it's a gross generalisation. Different people make music in different ways - some people go for the trial and error approach (ie. experimentation).. but it is totally possible to program music as a composer - ie. writing lines and tracks that you hear in your head... it is no different to a classical composer - some classical composers use a trial and error approach and others write music which is already pre-conceived in their head. I'm a fully trained violinist - have played in the melbourne symphony orchestra blah blah whatever... and make techno - and they are as challenging and difficult as each other, just in different ways...

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