Just my opinion,

I use BIAB for practice, its the best tool by far.

I also have a decent studio with very good plugins. I dont use it much anymore.


I tried doing tracks using loops etc, but I found it deeply unsatisfying. Yes, I could make something that others called music, but I did not feel like I MADE THE MUSIC, it was like someone else who did it.
I was listening to Nina Simone singing Cotton Eye'd Joe. I don't think any machine could come up with this kind of music, the lyrics, the voice, the poignancy, the deep south soul. Every time, I see this poor blind fool standing at her door with a flower in his hand - the story of all of us men.

Some humaness is captured in loops of course, but music is a symbiotic process and this is what you loose when using backing tracks, sometimes its a look in the eye of the bass player, or the way the string section produces an homogonized staccato of exactly the right length for the context, each human is like a finely tuned DAW.
SOme may see these things as trivial, but I think these are the things that make MUSIC as opposed to MUZAK.

I find I can't listen to the UK charts because of all the overproduction, sometimes real music just has to breath, it has to be cronky and rusty be mortal rather than mechanically correct

Z

Last edited by ZeroZero; 01/11/15 11:31 PM.
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