Originally Posted By: eddie1261
We have no way to know if we are hearing all manually played tracks or not. We can't spot them like we can spot autotune on vocals.

I hear ya Eddie.
Just today and in this very thread I realized a piece of truth.

For years I would imagine someone playing steel drums in the Morning Dance song by Spyro Gyra, 6:30 in the above video I posted. Come to find out today that it's the dude playing his keyboard. I still love the song and maybe I can fool my brain into still thinking that it's a guy on an actual steel drum. But the point is, as you point out, you just can't tell anymore. Keyboards, software plugins and RealTracks all have reached a point of supreme realism that very few of us (if any) can reliably tell the difference between live and "non-live" music. I'm sure there are those that agree with this state of technology and those that don't. And soon, you won't be able to spot auto-tune or synth vocals. It's just the ever-forward march of progress. Hopefully those that are negatively impacted by this can find new ways to adapt and remain relevant, successful and even indispensable.

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