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You know, for people who can actually play something in 1 take, without the need for editing and Frankensteining!
 
R

 
well I am glad MIDI editing is an option for people like me who have creative ideas but not a piano virtuoso.   Didn't know the virtuoso's had such an elitist flare to them lul.

You have no idea how funny/appropriate it is that you accidentally wrote lul instead of lol :)

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You know, for people who can actually play something in 1 take, without the need for editing and Frankensteining!
 
R

 
well I am glad MIDI editing is an option for people like me who have creative ideas but not a piano virtuoso.  

People like me too. 

AdamGrossmanLG

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You know, for people who can actually play something in 1 take, without the need for editing and Frankensteining!
 
R

 
well I am glad MIDI editing is an option for people like me who have creative ideas but not a piano virtuoso.   Didn't know the virtuoso's had such an elitist flare to them lul.

Beethoven was a terrible cello player, but he told cellists what to play by using something very similar to MIDI - notational data presented to a player.
 
There's a difference between a player and a composer, and I see no reason why anyone would look down at a composer who is interested in composing for multiple instruments.

I will add that from the perspective of someone who started out with external MIDI hardware, before the era of soft synths, it was normal to record the audio out from your synth in real-time into your DAW tracks. 
 
When switching over to soft synths, it seemed that something was missing in Sonar in that regard, until they added synth recording.
 
So I'm glad it's there. 

I think I may know where the angst comes from.  There are TONS of people out there who are not musical at all and just want to pretend they are musicians.  They put in a 4 on the floor kick and 2, 4 snare.... load up some arpeggio, hit a few keys and they think they have a song.
 
I kinda cringe when I watch those videos.  Stuff like this comes to mind:  https://youtu.be/LI0Lw_IGooI
 
lul.
 
I use all synths, but there is a song first flushed out before I even touch synths using either acoustic guitar or piano with a full verse, chorus, vocal melody,  rough lyrics, etc....   this way I know whatever I do on synths has a strong skeleton of a song first.

Well, if you use Alchemy's performance pad it is the easiest way to capture that, which makes it a great tool.  I do a lot of evolving drone stuff that needs the pad.