Quote Originally Posted by CTRLS View Post
you seen those radio sites that learn your musical taste? they're getting pretty good at it. in theory if you collect enough data to predict a club crowd... worryingly, you probably can program a computer to perform an alright set, selecting tunes and mixing by itself, in a few years. sorry to hijack but can you imagine going out to see a computer spin? i don't know whether to be scared or excited :lol:
You are way too close to the truth. I'm a developer of live music production systems, fortunately the only things I allow for pre-production wise are pre-note/sound sequencing, maybe human impossible effecting and nothing else. I personally feel you're cheating an audience if you make it so you can literally press a key and everything happens. Ableton/equivelent currently allows you to do this with sounds and effects, it's far too easy to sit there with pre-sequenced loops and effects and just wave your arms then maybe press a key. The only thing missing at the moment is switching the laptop on, pressing a key and going and jumping around in the audience. Maybe next? If not now?

The fact is, who has the name, who's making the money? It's as far from underground as you can get.