Re:MIDI 2.0 Prototyping announced
by 8bitsrule on Saturday January 19, 2019 @05:38PM
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20 years ago plenty of people who should have known better complained about how crappy 'MIDI music' sounded. I liked to point out that MIDI doesn't make any sounds. It's a communications protocol. A Casio is not a Moog. Hollywood managed to work miracles with MIDI.
Similarly, if you find modern music 'glib and lifeless', that's not the fault of the instruments. For some reason the audience hasn't chosen to support something better. And let's just say that a lot of producers like to loop the same sample endlessly, because .... (they can't play? they lzy bches?)
Re:MIDI 2.0 Prototyping announced
by dspig on Sunday January 20, 2019 @07:51AM
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or it's the sound they want - an exactly repeating groove was what James Brown was trying to achieve with a band, and various disco producers with tape loops, before there were sampled loops.
Re:MIDI 2.0 Prototyping announced
by 8bitsrule on Sunday January 20, 2019 @11:21PM
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Maybe so. But I can tell yesterday whether I'm listening to Jimmy's band or a pasted-together wannabe track. All respect but ain't no Bootsy Button on the 303.
Similarly, if you find modern music 'glib and lifeless', that's not the fault of the instruments. For some reason the audience hasn't chosen to support something better. And let's just say that a lot of producers like to loop the same sample endlessly, because .... (they can't play? they lzy bches?)