Remember folks. It's not the notes we play that make us great musicians. It's the notes we DON'T play. 
 
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This thread is interesting... I went to a college that was focused on engineering, and one day I went to the library and picked up the only music theory book they had (out of hundreds of thousands). IIRC, the copyright of that book was 1936, and the irony is that everything in that book is still applicable even today (music theory has not changed). Adding "gimmicks to sounds" doesn't not render music theory useless, yet people continue to be on an endless quest to do something "never done before."

I'm an old geezer. Shudent my muzik sound like it?! I'd look reelly silly playing kiddy stuff. What's popular with the world is not so with me. No one sez you have to like it. In fact, you'll probably never even hear it since I'm no pro and never will be.
 
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If you feel old you will sound old. Every one has a right to feel good about themselves. That reflects in your music. Eat honey keep your vocals warm and think outside of the box. Let music keep you young.
 
Experiment do something out of the norm dont let your music become mundane
 
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Remember folks. It's not the notes we play that make us great musicians. It's the notes we DON'T play. 
 
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So, Dan,  I have to ask because I REALLY want to know...
 
 
How did you find this 5 year old thread?  Was it random chance?

The irony is, if SongCraft managed to work out how to make his music sound more modern, then it's totally out of date by now. It's a good job I have a vague grasp of the definition of irony.

Last month I recorded a whole concert of music from the '80's...well...the 1680's.   Great music and great sound doesn't have an expiration date.  Synthesizers do.  I think music would be much longer-lived if we stopped the reliance on computers to do the music making for us.  
 
Of course that makes me an old geezer thinking that music should be played, not just listened to.  

If your music sounds dated it is probably because it is! It means your ideas are dated. It has nothing to do with the instruments involved.
 
Daniel is showing his age (and bias) now in terms of synthesisers. They are here to stay. Obviously he has not heard Tangerine Dream. In many cases they play all the music live but on synthesisers.
 
If the music moves you emotionally then it has succeeded. It ends there. It makes no difference what the music is or  how the music was created or performed. It is all about your emotional response.

Forget it. 

Sounding current is easy. You just need to be 17 years old, sing in a high, out of tune voice, have it Autotuned to extreme, not be able to play an instrument, star on a Disney network program, and then let the Big Music Execs create an after Disney image for you.

No sweat!