From spacecake Sent Wed, Mar 25th 1998, 23:13
At 08:04 PM 3/25/98 -0000, siliconvortex wrote: >>I have, definitely. Getting the MAC with SCSI to transfer the sounds >>and program the Akai was the best thing I could have done. AMEN my brother!!! :-) i don't know how i lived without SCSI... <snip, gear> >i know what you're saying, but really it's just made your job easier, >not improved the potential of your music has it? maybe if you're lazy, >yes.. yes and by making something easier you can write music with more inspiration and less perspiration... and that in itself should give your music more potential. plus, i don't think you need to have an expensive studio in order to write great music, but you should have a studio which you do not feel cramped by... and if that means getting a lexion, then go ahead! >:-) ...if tom jenkinson can do what he has done on a boss drum >machine for sequencing and a 12 bit akai sampler, then for anyone who >has the drive and determination to really do something, a setup such as >yours (not that it's particularly expensive) isn't crucially important. at this time i would like everyone to open their copy of 'i eat weird things' and look inside... as you can see he definately has MORE gear than an akai and a drum machine... (plus, all his warp stuff wasn't even mastered by him but by someone else... and notice the improvment!) ...anyway, there is only so much that can be done with a piece of gear... and new technology makes new ideas possible. >with more expensive, and more complex equipment, you can obviously >achieve a wider variety of sonic delights and other such things. but >is this all that is important about music? well its not ALL that's important... but what fun would it be if every label put shit done on mario paint. >can we not listen to music in a deeper sense? as someone's sig on 313 said: if it kick it, it kick it. or was it if it kick it kick? whatever... >>Agreed, club tunes have to have a crowd pleasing element >the whole world is a club, your living room is a club, the street >outside a 'club' is a club in exactly the same way, so there is no such >thing as 'club music' in the way you put it. huh? last time i looked, no one charged me an entrance fee for going out... :-) (and i didn't have to wait 2 fucking hours in line either!!!) >if you can't 'do it' on a simple setup, what is there to say >that by simply piling up the gear, piling up the options, piling up the >sounds, is going to make your music worthwhile? nothing! okay man. you go and buy yourself that ol' nintendo and mario paint and go write us some hits! >i don't respect any musicians. i just love pieces of music and try to >forget that mere musicians actually made them. cos musicians are >really pathetic people on the whole! heh heh, you've just managed to insult more than half the subscribers of this list in one sentence... (i however perfer to call myself an artist! :-) ) :spacecake: