Quote Originally Posted by Ritzi Lee
Quote Originally Posted by Sunil
Actually I don't agree either, saying that techno producers are not musicians is far to sweeping a statement to be able to make, it just ain't true..

Ok now we have an interesting discussion. :)

In what way you can show me that a techno producer is a musician??
Easy. Both Guy McAffer and Henry were in a band before going banging 'aving it acid techno. Guy played the keyboards and Henry the drums. Both are musicians and techno producers. Take it up with Henry if you want to.

I can not see how you can be good at writing techno if you are not a musician. Without an understanding of percussion, harmonics, timing, etc. its just going to sound like somebody is playing with Reason/Fruity/Logic/Cubase etc. Beleave me, I wish I had a musical background - its a whole language on its own, that if you can speak it you can put alot of smiles on people faces.

The difference between a musician and a non-musician is that a musician can get what he hears in his head into a sequencer - a non-musician generally only uses trial-and-error to get something that sounds good by experimenting and it never sounds like what you thought it would.

Peace.