Because if there’s one danger in laptops, it has nothing to do with squashing creativity, and everything to do with getting involved in time-sucking arguments. This is a waste of time, isn’t it? Very well I’ll stop. Chopin made countless Mazurkas using the same rhythmic “preset” composers used cantus firmi “presets” and made it their own, and -Īh. And in a way, repeating this melodic pattern embedded in the preset is a weird 21st Century-equivalent of common musical practices from centuries past. You could leave the rest of us alone with presets 3 and 5, and we might come up with nothing. Of course, the irony here to me is also that, even using a preset pattern verbatim, Daft Punk come up with a Daft Punk song. I see people I know when I use technology. (Keith Fullerton Whitman spoke to us rather eloquently about getting to know the folks making the modules in his rig. And if you’ve ever heard the demo tracks they make, you know you can make something entirely different with them, entirely your own.
(Crap, I was a folk singer-songwriter and now I can only make BROSTEP! You, too, will be assimilated!) No, this is stuff made by other musicians. You didn’t dig your DAW out of the sand in Egypt from a UFO crash site, touch its gold-plated, alien surface, and suddenly, eyes glowing blue, have your mind taken over by telepathic beings light years advanced of our puny Earth tech. The thing about getting to know the programmers and engineers who make music technology is, it gets harder to see them as faceless technology. In turn, though, it doesn’t sound anything like Daft Punk, making this whole argument somewhat … suspect. Because when Electroconductor makes music with the presets in Gross Beat, he actually is showcasing his individuality. If you’d like to hear the music from the guy who made the preset Daft Punk used, you can. Maybe it’s something about famous people that they start projecting what seem to be self-directed criticisms at the rest of the world. But hold on a sec: are even presets really sinful, anyway?
Maybe the battery was dead on their Bluetooth mouse I dunno. Source: Daft Punk Gross Beat, Image-Line News, March 2011Ĭhange the scheme, alter the mood, move the damned knobs on the interface if you don’t like the presets. They’re not inviting you to challenge the systems themselves, or giving you the ability to showcase your personality, individuality.ĭaft Punk on EDM Producers: ‘They’re Missing the Tools’
The problem with the way to make music today, these are turnkey systems they come with preset banks and sounds. We really felt that the computers are not really music instruments, and we were not able to express ourselves using a laptop. I don’t want to beat this issue like a low-polygon future Derezzed horse, but I realized I missed a very important quote from Billboard. samples, sound libraries, presets, reviews, contests, downloads & more. I hadn’t actually seen this quote from Daft Punk. Von Guitar Rig 5 über BAIS FX bis Amplitube 4.