He speaks the truth....
 
https://streamable.com/vpf1s

Hi,
 
I love it when someone says that I would not know anything about music because I am not a musician ... and the same goes for writing, painting and what not ... 
 
I always felt that "creativity" has less to do with the idea that you are this or than than it does with the way you think and act and translate your inner thoughts. My only concern from a creative point of view is that folks have taken to DAW's as a way to think that they are composing, and almost all they are doing is creating limitations that do not always allow the piece of music to fly and take off -- albeit it would be a different piece, then.
 
Sadly, a DAW's worst limitation is the time keeping and the locking to a drum "set/groove" kind of thing ... it takes away the freedom of the music, and makes the drummer and bass player (in rock'n'roll) much less of a creative force, because they are stuck ... I keep thinking of the scores for a Beethoven, Puccini, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky and I see 50 instruments go in 50 directions, and then you catch rock music, and it's 4 instruments ... and only one direction.
 
My idea is that music, like any "art", is about the FREEDOM of it all ... not the regimentation of it at all.

What I think about DAWS is they are too hard to learn a massive hurdle to overcome for anyone trying to create their musical ideas.
 
Or Im just a dumbo.

Who are Beethoven, Puccini, Tchaikovsky, and Stravinsky? ..........Yea Kanye! 

Moshkito
 
Sadly, a DAW's worst limitation is the time keeping and the locking to a drum "set/groove" kind of thing ... 

Huh?
 
You don't have to work to a click track - you can just record a live drummer playing his kit.
 
Or record a whole band 'live' if you wish. Not a metronome/click track in sight.
 
 
 
 

Yeah Pedro the timekeeping in a DAW is purely optional. You don't have to use a click track and you don't even have to use measures in the time ruler. You can use the thing as a tape recorder.

sharke
He speaks the truth....
 
https://streamable.com/vpf1s

testify

Those kids in their garage really know a lot more than you think.  Youtube is full of them.

It's nice to hear a "pro" not dissing peeps with assumed lesser musical abilities. Unlike Rick Wakeman, for instance, who never hides his disdain for the "bedroom musician"

Moshkito
 
 
Sadly, a DAW's worst limitation is the time keeping and the locking to a drum "set/groove" kind of thing ... it takes away the freedom of the music, and makes the drummer and bass player (in rock'n'roll) much less of a creative force, because they are stuck ... I keep thinking of the scores for a Beethoven, Puccini, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky and I see 50 instruments go in 50 directions, and then you catch rock music, and it's 4 instruments ... and only one direction.
 
My idea is that music, like any "art", is about the FREEDOM of it all ... not the regimentation of it at all.

Pedro, you can play completely freeform without a click track in a DAW, then add drums (or anything else) to it using tempo mapping. The only limitations are your imagination.