sharke
Max Output Level: 0 dBFS
- Total Posts : 13933
- Joined: 2012/08/03 00:13:00
- Location: NYC
- Status: offline
The 14 pieces of software that shaped modern music
They could have just made it a round 15 and tacked Cakewalk onto there  But never mind. Nice to see my beloved old OctaMED and current favorite Reaktor on this list. http://www.factmag.com/20...t-shaped-modern-music/
JamesWindows 10, Sonar SPlat (64-bit), Intel i7-4930K, 32GB RAM, RME Babyface, AKAI MPK Mini, Roland A-800 Pro, Focusrite VRM Box, Komplete 10 Ultimate, 2012 American Telecaster!
|
craigb
Max Output Level: 0 dBFS
- Total Posts : 41704
- Joined: 2009/01/28 23:13:04
- Location: The Pacific Northwestshire
- Status: offline
Re: The 14 pieces of software that shaped modern music
2014/04/26 04:42:07
(permalink)
Some interesting choices/omissions as expected. It also appears that nothing has been created since 2004, ya? 
Time for all of you to head over to Beyond My DAW!
|
auto_da_fe
Max Output Level: -56.5 dBFS
- Total Posts : 1866
- Joined: 2004/08/04 21:32:18
- Status: offline
Re: The 14 pieces of software that shaped modern music
2014/04/26 13:42:41
(permalink)
only ones i own are reaktor (rarely use) and garageband (ipad was free and so was garageband).
What about dyamite cowbell ?? how else can you "get more cowbell ???" especially when you have a "feevah"
JR
HP DV6T - 2670QM, 8 GB RAM, Sonar Platypus, Octa Capture, BFD2 & Jamstix3, Komplete 10 and Komplete Kontrol Win 10 64 SLS PS8R Monitors and KRK Ergo https://soundcloud.com/airportface
|
Beagle
Max Output Level: 0 dBFS
- Total Posts : 50621
- Joined: 2006/03/29 11:03:12
- Location: Fort Worth, TX
- Status: offline
Re: The 14 pieces of software that shaped modern music
2014/04/26 14:11:00
(permalink)
craigb
Some interesting choices/omissions as expected. It also appears that nothing has been created since 2004, ya?
that's a FACT (Jack!)
|
Beagle
Max Output Level: 0 dBFS
- Total Posts : 50621
- Joined: 2006/03/29 11:03:12
- Location: Fort Worth, TX
- Status: offline
Re: The 14 pieces of software that shaped modern music
2014/04/26 14:14:55
(permalink)
[pet peeve] Reaper is not free. [/pet peeve]
|
drewfx1
Max Output Level: -9.5 dBFS
- Total Posts : 6585
- Joined: 2008/08/04 16:19:11
- Status: offline
Re: The 14 pieces of software that shaped modern music
2014/04/26 14:25:16
(permalink)
☄ Helpfulby Beagle 2014/04/26 17:43:54
The only things lists like these demonstrate is how truly and completely clueless the people who compile them are. Omitting Cakewalk while including virtually everyone else is bad enough from our perspective, but um, no Gigastudio? Really?
 In order, then, to discover the limit of deepest tones, it is necessary not only to produce very violent agitations in the air but to give these the form of simple pendular vibrations. - Hermann von Helmholtz, predicting the role of the electric bassist in 1877.
|
Rain
Max Output Level: 0 dBFS
- Total Posts : 9736
- Joined: 2003/11/07 05:10:12
- Location: Las Vegas
- Status: offline
Re: The 14 pieces of software that shaped modern music
2014/04/26 15:15:44
(permalink)
Considering what else they did include, I would have expected to see at least one incarnation of a Cakewalk sequencer. The omission of Opcode Studio Vision is also strange.
OTOH, as much as I love Logic and even though I think it's the best thing since sliced bread, Steinberg's Cubase alone would have covered the basis for most of the other timeline-oriented sequencers. But since they included Logic and Garage Band, they have no excuse not to include Sonar, Vegas, Samplitude and all the others.
Where's Acid and where's Gigasampler? - these are the two reason why many Mac-based studio started integrating PCs into their environment.
ReBirth would have made much more sense than Reason, imho.
TCB - Tea, Cats, Books...
|
craigb
Max Output Level: 0 dBFS
- Total Posts : 41704
- Joined: 2009/01/28 23:13:04
- Location: The Pacific Northwestshire
- Status: offline
Re: The 14 pieces of software that shaped modern music
2014/04/26 15:23:49
(permalink)
Time for all of you to head over to Beyond My DAW!
|
dubdisciple
Max Output Level: -17 dBFS
- Total Posts : 5849
- Joined: 2008/01/29 00:31:46
- Location: Seattle, Wa
- Status: offline
Re: The 14 pieces of software that shaped modern music
2014/04/26 16:34:06
(permalink)
I think reason got the nod over rebirth because rebirth was far more specialized. Reason basically built upon rebirth and created a product far more useful to mainstream and even other underground genres aside from techno.
Imo acid would be among the biggest omissions. Many now standard looping features were influenced by acid, including Garageband and Ableton.
|
yorolpal
Max Output Level: 0 dBFS
- Total Posts : 13829
- Joined: 2003/11/20 11:50:37
- Status: offline
Re: The 14 pieces of software that shaped modern music
2014/04/26 16:38:58
(permalink)
Welp, to me it's about as informative and useful as tits on a boar hog. It's basically just a list of DAWs and some other stuff thrown in for good measure. Pitiful. The two most important "pieces of software" shaping modern music were the midi spec and software that drives every ADC/DAC. Harrumph.
|
Rain
Max Output Level: 0 dBFS
- Total Posts : 9736
- Joined: 2003/11/07 05:10:12
- Location: Las Vegas
- Status: offline
Re: The 14 pieces of software that shaped modern music
2014/04/26 16:45:01
(permalink)
☄ Helpfulby Beagle 2014/04/26 17:08:10
They probably should have included a couple of Torrent clients and keygens in that list, too...
TCB - Tea, Cats, Books...
|
Beagle
Max Output Level: 0 dBFS
- Total Posts : 50621
- Joined: 2006/03/29 11:03:12
- Location: Fort Worth, TX
- Status: offline
Re: The 14 pieces of software that shaped modern music
2014/04/26 17:12:08
(permalink)
Rain
They probably should have included a couple of Torrent clients and keygens in that list, too...
|
dubdisciple
Max Output Level: -17 dBFS
- Total Posts : 5849
- Joined: 2008/01/29 00:31:46
- Location: Seattle, Wa
- Status: offline
Re: The 14 pieces of software that shaped modern music
2014/04/26 17:14:42
(permalink)
☄ Helpfulby Rain 2014/04/26 17:13:13
Also hard to not notice the exclusion of recycle.
|
auto_da_fe
Max Output Level: -56.5 dBFS
- Total Posts : 1866
- Joined: 2004/08/04 21:32:18
- Status: offline
Re: The 14 pieces of software that shaped modern music
2014/04/27 00:08:26
(permalink)
How about nyquist theorem...is that software ?
HP DV6T - 2670QM, 8 GB RAM, Sonar Platypus, Octa Capture, BFD2 & Jamstix3, Komplete 10 and Komplete Kontrol Win 10 64 SLS PS8R Monitors and KRK Ergo https://soundcloud.com/airportface
|
craigb
Max Output Level: 0 dBFS
- Total Posts : 41704
- Joined: 2009/01/28 23:13:04
- Location: The Pacific Northwestshire
- Status: offline
Re: The 14 pieces of software that shaped modern music
2014/04/27 03:01:09
(permalink)
Time for all of you to head over to Beyond My DAW!
|
Moshkiae
Max Output Level: -14 dBFS
- Total Posts : 6111
- Joined: 2009/04/27 10:26:25
- Status: offline
Re: The 14 pieces of software that shaped modern music
2014/04/29 00:15:12
(permalink)
Hi,
I don't think that many of these shaped music.
I think that it made music a bit more static and controlled and less "free" from the confines of the usual rigidity that it has a tendency to suffer as a copy, rather than an original.
All in all, the blatant use of beats, is not a musical development, and is overdone, and just a passing phase in music, and history will surely show us that.
When looked at with a wider context, and include music history for the last 100 years, these pieces of software could facilitate a lot of music composition, and instead it is used for the most boring, repetitive and music that lacks desire, love, and a total dedication to the history and its inventive and creative endeavors.
I can handle, and like a repetitive beat, at times, but show me the beats in a DAW for The Rite of Spring, or a 5th Symphony! Rock music can do way better and improve on many of those and instead it sticks to the variations upon a theme with a different sounding bass note! And an even more boring drumming soundtrack!
I would like to see a lot more "anarchy" in these programs, and their use. Sadly, that is the one thing that is not found a whole lot, and as such, I tend to think that the creativity around it, suffers.
But, as a media, or instrument, it is probably very NEW and likely to improve as time goes by. And the next great composer won't use instruments but a DAW of some kind ... that ought to get a few feathers ruffled in the world of music!
As a wise Guy once stated from his holy chapala ... none of the hits, none of the time ... prevents you from becoming just another turkey in the middle of all the other turkeys!
|