Leon Tricker wrote:I'm generally supportive of adavances in music technology that either make it cheaper to produce music and/or gives people easier access to making music.
What I dislike is this mentality (quoted from article):
"When I was starting out you had to learn how to use a complex piece of software or how to play an instrument. It took a long time, it was tedious and not necessarily productive."
It just sums up a contemporary attitude towards learning in general. Yes, learning an instrument or a piece of software can be challneging - but overcoming that should be a reward in itself.
people have much more money in the pocket than in the beginning of the 80´s.. i can well remember when we checked out the new 606..wow.. what a cool machine it was.. the funny sister 303 was a bit .. ???what is that thing for..
but no way.. we had to leave the shop with a cheapo i ve forgotten the name vestax alike drummachine brand..
the 606 was soemthing like 350 euro......
however..that hasent stoped us to make tape and vinyl releases... and we had absolutly no clue how that stuff really worked.. that came later.. but we had to try to invent our own sound.. because in the 80´s nobody took you serious when not having an original sound...
that actually still was the driving force behind all the techno evolution in europe..the people had absolutly no sense for sounding the same like this or that..only the copy cats.. but back than they was considred as lamers...
today? everybody knows everything.. people that have touched theire first daw 3 month ago..using only preset sounds ..reading the mastering book of bob katz... because thats the only issue.. not sounding different.. or having own sounds.. no no..sounding like this guy..or that guy is the goal.. and because all the preset files only the mastering is the challenge..
i dont really think that that is progress...
at least not a progress in attitude.. and therfore there is no musical progress.. just better mastering...