Re: Is using Pre-Recorded Loops Cheating?

[Chris Sewell <lunamusic@mac.com>]

They say with the new Melodyne, it can actually pick out every note  
from a track and map it in a piano roll. Which means you could take  
Led Zeppelin IV and rearrange the notes to create your own music  
using Zeppelins tones. The implications of this are of course mind  
boggling. Its an extreme example, but if its done well, it could be  
interesting.
On May 15, 2008, at 8:15 AM, Wavecomputer360 wrote:

> Why should it be cheating? After all, itīs you who created the  
> loops so why
> bother? As a performing musician you ought to keep an eye on  
> delivering a
> decent show with as little flaws as possible, this is what your  
> audience
> paid for. If using pre-recorded loops help you accomplish this,  
> great! Of
> course itīs great to create everything on the spot, giving an awe- 
> inspiring
> demo of your musical skills but sometimes things tend to go wrong,  
> like
> little fluctuations in line voltage, or the sushi you had before  
> the show
> that was slightly, erm, fishy...
>
> I would only have a serious problem were I to use loops that were  
> created by
> someone else, i. e. a sampling library or something along these  
> lines. Itīs
> neither my own stuff, nor does it require a particular amount of  
> musical or
> technical wit to reproduce this. As long as itīs your own stuff,  
> why bother?
>
> Stephen
>
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