Originally Posted By: Mike Head
Hi Mat

Yes I couldn’t agree more , much of today’s keyboards and software could not exist without Midi
And yes it can be good with a bit of extra time spent on production, as indeed anything can; it’s all in the finish.

Would not like to be back in the days of Valve voltage controlled triode oscillators
And voltage ladder keyboard dividers at 1.2 volt per octave
Well only for fun anyway!
Have fun
Mike



But I would like to make one tangential point, as to even the old wooden ways. In the times of Ludwig Van Beethoven, you know what the big enchilada of the music publishing industry was? Pop music, not Beethoven, and not criticizing the genre, as music is about what people like. I would, though, ask you how many pop tunes from the early 19th century can you play in your mind?

What has survived for hundreds of years was painstakingly laid down on paper, in Beethoven’s case with calculated, great consideration of each note and an, as if, divine discontent with editing, to make it better. Who I’d argue the greatest musician who ever lived, not “greatest” perse in creativity and product, as there may be no greatest in that regard, to my mind, and I like some others more than Beethoven, overall aesthetically, but greatest for Beethoven’s prolific, revolutionary library of high quality that changed the world, and, again, his painstaking deliberation, total dedication, to not just roll off notes onto a page, or, in modern parlance, rip the composition off by way of a midi controller. I would put to you a question. How much of today would survive? Would most of what’s happened the past, say, fifty years survive at all, absent recordings? Can you even get the highest quality, quickly pouring streams of notes from a midi controller, or would you get better quality, all things being equal, considering each note, phrase the act of manually scoring enforces a discipline of?

Just some thoughts on the matter, not meaning to be controversial, even though music history proves this is true. You can’t argue that, if it worked for Beethoven, or Chopin, etc...

Thank you all, again. It’s off to be responsible today, for a change!