Re: Warez (was Sharks Lungs in Haggis)

["Gregor Zavcer" <gregor.zavcer@kiss.uni-lj.si>]

hi,

I don't think that i have to use all the software there is, but you'll sure
agree that some software could be described as essential. to me this
software is mostly sound forge, waves native power pack, logic and acid. i
can't afford this software.
a friend of mine recently showed me buzz. buzz has a completly different
approach to amking music as i'm used to. still i'm probably going to use it
in the future as i really liked some features. still sound forge and
mastering tools are necessary. i've heard songs made in buzz and i heard
same songs remastered in the programs i just mentioned. while buzz is great
for puting the song together it still needs help from the "outside". if i
would "release" my song directly from buzz, that would be for me the same
thing as going to the store wearing only underwear.


gregor

>I make music with what I can obtain within my means. I would have a hard
>time respecting myself as a musician if I believed that I needed tons of
>expensive software to create art. When I was a kid, I made instruments out
>of rubber bands and buckets and bits of electronic toys. I then got a 386,
>discovered the demo scene, and started tracking samples in Scream Tracker,
>all of which I found on the 'net in the public domain or sampled through
>my horrid mono 8-bit original sound blaster. At least sixty percent of all
>my musical effort, for as long as I can remember, has been doing my
>damnedest to push the equipment I have to the absolute limit and making it
>do things outside the original specifications.
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>I have a hard time respecting the "electronic musicians" of the Techno Era
>with their phrase samplers, time-warping sequencers with instant aphex
>twin buttons built in, spending a couple hundred bucks more so they can
>wow the crowds with the newest roland beat-mangler that sounds like
>nothing else until everyone else can afford it. Fuck That. Ripping a
>drumloop off a sample CD, running it through ReCycle, whipping up a
>nonsensical 303 bassline in ReBirth and topping it off with VST or Digital
>Performer sequence tricks is not good music.
>
>Wow, I'm bitter. Pardon me. I've just come back from a very bad rave, and
>I had one too many drinks. My point is, if you can't afford the software,
>innovate. Use Buzz, Csound, and Impulse Tracker. Go to paia.com and learn
>to solder. Be creative and work around your limitations instead of
>stealing software and hiking prices for the rest of us.
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