Beginner Daw Questions

You can't understand promoting your music for anything other than financial gain?

 

You think that creating fake recordings is a better way than encouraging live performance?

 

You sound like a hell of an artist.

*edit* I Just read the thread over again.. forget I said anything..

*edited again* Its not like im not encouraging live recordings, I said earlier "just stick to chamber music and work your way up". The Op clearly doesn't have enough money to be doing live mockups on the whim. Lets be honest here

You can't understand promoting your music for anything other than financial gain?

 

You think that creating fake recordings is a better way than encouraging live performance?

 

You sound like a hell of an artist.

I'm sure glad someone else called him out on that.  I didn't want to have to show what an donkey hole I can be while I'm still pretty new here.  :)

I'm sure glad someone else called him out on that.  I didn't want to have to show what an donkey hole I can be while I'm still pretty new here.   :)

You can always count on me to be an asshole, that's for sure.

I encourage anyone who has any interest in writing for orchestra to invest in the most high quality sound samples and synths available, and devote as much attention as possible to creating high quality mockups that can substitute for real recordings. If the current rate of technological advancement continues, within a few years all composers should be satisfied with computer sounds and not seek to have their orchestral works performed, thereby accelerating the decline of orchestras, bringing to an end the anachronistic tradition of orchestral music, and hopefully leading to its replacement with something better and more relevant to our time.

Wow. That was depressing.

I encourage anyone who has any interest in writing for orchestra to invest in the most high quality sound samples and synths available, and devote as much attention as possible to creating high quality mockups that can substitute for real recordings. If the current rate of technological advancement continues, within a few years all composers should be satisfied with computer sounds and not seek to have their orchestral works performed, thereby accelerating the decline of orchestras, bringing to an end the anachronistic tradition of orchestral music, and hopefully leading to its replacement with something better and more relevant to our time.

I don't think orchestras need any help declining, they're pretty well fucked as it is.

I encourage anyone who has any interest in writing for orchestra to invest in the most high quality sound samples and synths available, and devote as much attention as possible to creating high quality mockups that can substitute for real recordings. If the current rate of technological advancement continues, within a few years all composers should be satisfied with computer sounds and not seek to have their orchestral works performed, thereby accelerating the decline of orchestras, bringing to an end the anachronistic tradition of orchestral music, and hopefully leading to its replacement with something better and more relevant to our time.

The growing demand for high quality orchestral mockups is an economic fact of life for commercial and cinematic work. But it's not the whole picture. This technology necessarily breeds a lot of similar rubbish.

But ... there is also a market for the exceptional.

fseventsd: How can the tradition of musicians playing together in an ensemble be anachronistic if it's been practiced since forever? The modern orchestra is nothing if not malleable.

The modern orchestra is nothing

I love the western classical tradition and will be sad to see it die any more than it has ;_;

I love the western classical tradition and will be sad to see it die any more than it has ;_;

I'm a pretty firm believer that this will never happen.

Today people feel that the western classical tradition is dying, new works aren't getting publicity, and only the old blue hairs attend classical concerts.  

Twenty years ago people felt that the western classical tradition was dying, new works weren't getting publicity, and only the old blue hairs attended classical concerts.  

Fifty years ago people felt that the western classical tradition was dying, new works weren't getting publicity, and only the old blue hairs attended classical concerts.

One hundred years ago people felt that the western classical tradition was dying, new works weren't getting publicity, and only the old blue hairs attended classical concerts.

My prediction for the future is this:  People will feel that the western classical tradition will be dying, new works won't get much publicity, and only the old blue hairs will attend classical concerts.

On another note, I'm having a hard time of understanding if the last page or so of comments have been sarcastic or not.  Are there people out there who honestly look forward to a time where a live orchestra is a thing of the past and all performances are done by a computer and are exactly the same?  How sad that would be....

On another note, I'm having a hard time of understanding if the last page or so of comments have been sarcastic or not.  Are there people out there who honestly look forward to a time where a live orchestra is a thing of the past and all performances are done by a computer and are exactly the same?  How sad that would be....

It's either sarcasm or hyperbole. The orchestra will not die. People who have devoted their lives to their instruments will make it so. In other news ... "People will not stop having sex." Why? Cuz it's FUN!

On another note, I'm having a hard time of understanding if the last page or so of comments have been sarcastic or not.  Are there people out there who honestly look forward to a time where a live orchestra is a thing of the past and all performances are done by a computer and are exactly the same?  How sad that would be....

I believe that fairly soon (ie within my lifetime, most likely) while the orchestra will probably "bottom out" at a fairly stable point and remain with at least one per country, and may persist as a spontaneous (non-corporate) form of music-making among e.g. high schoolers or university students, the idea of writing for orchestra will be as foreign to (the vast majority of) young composers as the idea of writing in the baroque style is nowadays. It's already happened to the sonata (and, earlier in the history of music, the opera seria, the concerto grosso, the madrigal, the consort, etc), and the string quartet probably will have a lifetime of another couple of generations after that. I don't think acoustic instruments themselves will ever die out (although electronics are becoming increasingly important, but the relationship is mostly harmonious... so to speak), there will just be new forms of collective music-making that develop as needed to suit social needs.

We should seriously consider start writing for ipad ensembles.

We should seriously consider start writing for ipad ensembles.

I sense situation irony here, and sarcasm from this one.  Back on topic: the use of DAW is just a step in the right direction.  I would start off, but at first, using them. They can be daunting.  Maybe we should have teacher to teach people how to use DAW in music comp. This way musicians can take the music to galaxies they have never been before.

I was being quite serious. The ipad is a popular platform and there are quite a lot of apps that turn it into a viable musical instrument which could be used for live ensemble performance. It is a potential market for composers and arrangers.

 Maybe we should have teacher to teach people how to use DAW in music comp. This way musicians can take the music to galaxies they have never been before.

What a great idea. Wouldn't it be cool if you could have like a whole bunch of teachers all teaching different stuff, maybe in the same building or something?