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The crumpet man's thinker
I realise I'm not helping here, But how on earth did this thread get to 3 pages?
If you voted for yes, you should honestly try to really learn an instrument, otherwise you might be missing something important in music ...
Slow day at the office maybe...?I realise I'm not helping here, But how on earth did this thread get to 3 pages?
I use my computer keyboard to input notes into my Piano Roll, and I don't use a MIDI controller.
This makes my laptop my sole musical instrument.
What about EDM producers who use launchpad attached to their laptop to play live? Doesn't that make the computer their instrument?
If you voted for yes, you should honestly try to really learn an instrument, otherwise you might be missing something important in music ...
Marc, if you took that as an offense, I am sorry. I did not intend to attack anybody. But it is out of my imagination, how someone could compare the two - the instrument, crafted by human hand and improved over centuries, giving a human being intimate control over sound and than the PC (or Mac) that is certainly a fine accomplishment of human technology, but nonetheless bares no resemblance to the other ...After reading responses like @FriFlo's below, I think I am going to quit this forum...
The poll says otherwiseFor some it is, for most it isn't.
Marc, if you took that as an offense, I am sorry. I did not intend to attack anybody. But it is out of my imagination, how someone could compare the two - the instrument, crafted by human hand and improved over centuries, giving a human being intimate control over sound and than the PC (or Mac) that is certainly a fine accomplishment of human technology, but nonetheless bares no resemblance to the other ...
If you think, a PC is an instrument, fine! But there is no need to feel attacked, when I just find that crazy talk ...
Indeed, I consider a keyboard or a pipe organ less an instrument then a string or wind instrument (although I only play keys and a tiny bit of guitar). But as soon as digital comes into play, there is always missing something. Even with the most innovative inventions, like the Roli Seaboard, which is way more capable in terms of expression than my piano. If someone would ask, wether a Seaboard is a musical instrument, it would be a difficult question. With a computer, it is out of the question to me. Fine! Others see it differently and they are allowed to. I am just saying, if so many people here other forum don't share that feeling, I get the impression I am in the wrong place here, to be honest ... and I am by no means anti technology or anything like that. A physical instrument is however its own thing in my mind and it cannot be replaced by technology.I did not feel attacked nor did I take your comment personally. I just found it to be highly ignorant and dismissive.
Your point comparing hand-crafted instruments to modern technology is a valid one... but so also is Hans' analogy that the computer is much like the old pipe organ. The computer is a tool and it takes a great deal of craft to create with it. To be dismissive of that seems very naive to me.
It's all opinions, isn't it? Otherwise it wouldn't be much of a poll.The poll says otherwise