Well I took the survey. If it is as mentioned, is it likely they are gearing up for a stronger introduction to the market for computer music makers ? This I something I am not. If it isn’t physically played, it typically won’t be something I use. It asks if time learning the technical portions of the sequencer detract from your musical advancement
In my case I learned just enough sequencing/MIDI to emulate what I was
doing in a typical 24 track studio.
Once that was accomplished (the learning curve was very steep and I play MIDI guitar) I had no
interest in seeing what a sequencer could do beyond my experience.
Taking orchestration at university and after many many years ‘on the road’
I knew what I wanted to hear, so I did just that.
The sequencer was/is just a tool to help me accomplish that purpose.
My daughter on the other hand sees the 'puter itself as a musical instrument
and makes music far beyond what I had ever imagined by just ‘playing’ the features of the DAW.
interesting approach. And some of the stuff is not to shabby. Even to my old-ass ears.
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I took the survey, some of these questions were interesting. Unfortunately much of the functionality they ask about (Chord track etc) I haven’t had the chance to try yet so my contributions may not be very valuable.
Interesting. When the electric guitar (and amp) was invented it was just a way to make the guitar louder, right? “Playing the features of the DAW” reminds me of all those guitarist bods I met with cake tins full of wires and boards with switches on way back when an amp was something to weigh you down on the way into a gig. Later the cake tins turned into many of the guitar FX you often see today when they’d sorted out what sounded like a musical distortion instead of a fly in a bottle. They made money and we ate some humble pie sometimes for kicking their tin around.
It took me about 30 x mins to complete though a lot of it did not really apply to me as I do not use all the many application functions listed. Though I have used a few sequencers in the past (Korg M1, Yamaha QY20) and I am still learning Cubase.
It was interesting in that answering the questions (verbatim) really made me think and become more aware about my current compositional process.