Posts Tagged ‘musicians’

Neither a Borrower Nor a Lender Be

Friday, January 29th, 2010

Music-Tech2The tools available to make good music have never been more prevalent.  Each month I read cover-to-cover 4-5 industry magazines like Electronic Musician, Mix, Keyboard and EQ.  I’ve done so for many years and find that it’s a good way to keep up with not only the trends in music, but also the incredible advancement of technology.

I’ll have to admit to being a bit of a technology freak myself and often take advantage of some of the latest and greatest gear out there.  More and more in these magazines I find myself skipping the articles and just perusing the ads looking for the new technology to make my musical way easier and more professional.

More and more I find that the advancement of technology is pointed to the amateur musician who doesn’t really have the skills to make good music and needs a little help.  This is a good thing and perhaps a not so good thing.

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But What About The Poor Musicians?

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

For the last several days we’ve been discussing the amazing art of sampling that is making such huge contribution to the music industry and to the way music is made today. With a virtual sampled orchestra library, a composer/orchestrator no longer needs to hire an orchestra, but can now create an equivalent sound with his sampling software and a powerful computer.

For a composer, this is a tremendously enabling concept. It means that the huge amounts of money previously spent before are no longer necessary for the completion of one’s musical creativity.

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“But what about the poor musicians who no longer can get that kind of work”, I’m sure someone’s bound to ask. Well, it’s a good question. And the immediate answer is not pretty.

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