Re: How Music Is Made (Re: (idm) Ae new lp - a quick mention

From Kent Williams
Sent Wed, May 20th 1998, 16:45

On Tue, 19 May 1998, Che wrote:
> At 08:57 PM 5/19/98 -0500, xxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xxx wrote:
> 
> >it is far easier to record a keyboard part into a sequencer than to
> step-enter or otherwise program the notes.

It's easier if you can actually PLAY keyboards.  Not a skill I possess.

> 
> It really depends on the composer.  Step time isn't any more tedious than
> playing live if you're experienced (I find that older people have more
> trouble with step-time because they didn't grow up w/ computers). 

Ha, you young whippersnappers, I fart in your general direction!

Any more, I'm most comfortable cutting and pasting digital audio to
do my programming.  Now that's BELOW step time MIDI recording -- it's
like writing music with tweezers and a microscope.  Perhaps it's some
reflection on my essential lameness that I like stuff better when I put
it together without hearing it, than when I play it in.