Re: The End of Timeless Instruments? (Craig Anderton editorial)

[Travis Hartnett <travishartnett@gmail.com>]

I think his point was that the software-based instruments and tools
seem to be inherently disposable

On 10/27/05, goddard.duncan@mtvne.com <goddard.duncan@mtvne.com> wrote:
>
>
> >>they're probably doomed...and I don't like that one bit...... What 
>kind of
> a world have we created where instruments are inherently disposable?<<
>
> I think craig's just getting old. he seems to be contradicting himself 
>here.
> there aren't fewer guitars or keyboards being made now than there were in
> 1966 when his tele was born. probably just the opposite. anyone else 
>think
> he just had a bad day with a computer?
>
> the most popular virtual instruments are designed, largely, to either
> emulate real instruments of some interest that, for whatever reason (I'm
> choosing these words carefully, aren't I?) aren't widely available any 
>more.
> & so we have the likes of the arturia moog "replacing" the real thing.
>
> or they're designed to let you build new instruments from the ground up,
> like the thing that came bundled with my g/f's logic software, or the 
>line6
> variax toolbench.
>
>
> yes, there's a lot of this stuff about, & yes it may have a finite 
>lifespan
> because the support will go away sooner. but this isn't stopping fender &
> korg from selling thousands more real instruments every day than they 
>could
> have dreamed of selling back in the 60s or 70s.
>
> duncan.
>