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