Well, another day, another bit of controversey on the OSX Audio board. I continued on my rant against those who I view as "artistes". One person made a distinction between using canned loops and making your own...with the undercurrent being that canned loops weren''t "music" but if you made your own it was somehow inherently superior. My reply:', 'sorry, but I call more "artiste" nonsense by making a distinction between canned loops and "real" homemade loops. If the final product sounds good and moves people, it is immaterial what and how loops were made. Creating a loop from a sample clearly takes more expertise, but imho it does nothing to guarantee the "musicianistic" quality of what comes out the backend.
hey, a new word.
I know web developers that poo-poo anything but a text editor for creating web pages. Then there are people that use graphic tools. Then there are people who use weblogs that automate the entire process of creating the presentation of electronic words, except for the arrangement on the page. None of these guarantees good or bad results.
Not a perfect analogy, but you get the idea. I''m not saying that musicianship is dead, nor am I saying that loops are the be-all and end-all. But, the emergence of apps like this often point out the elitism and snobbery that pervades the arts. And I think those attributes are what helps to kills the arts in society
