[Fmpro] going loopy

[onephatcat@earthlink.net]

What's wrong with Shlitz? 

;-)

Actually, it is the same argument we used to use about sampling in general, and synth presets before there was sampling? "make your own sounds".  Any raw material that can be used for the creative process is good, if Apple tosses in some free loops with the EXS24, who's going to complain? There have been plenty of hit songs made with default patches, the only people who groan are those who know that synth and go "that sucks, he's just using preset #25" (which sounded cool, but we didn't use it because it was a default patch, and that was lame). How many songs were and are still written with the DX7 electric piano sound? A classic and it doesn't suck any less today than it did then. 

Joel

-----Original Message-----
>From: Chris Alpiar <chris at alpiar.com>
>Sent: May 31, 2007 4:23 PM
>To: fmpro at nxport.com
>Subject: Re: [Fmpro] going loopy
>
>I'm going to reiterate since I kind of spoke a lot on this earlier I want to
>be sure to not be misunderstood. I think looping is another way of being
>creative and any way that you can *create* an emotional instance it is a
>testament to your creativity, so long as it resonates truth within yourself.
>I stand firm however, that using some *pre-built* loops that come with a
>software or a library is lame, lamer then lame, and it is the same as using
>a ghost writer and claiming its yours, or lip syncing at the Grammy's:
>unethical and not your creation, regardless of whether it is legal or not.
>
>By all means though smoke a fatty and have fun playing them, even get ideas
>on how to make something yourself from them. But I would have to hear
>something pretty extraordinary, some avant-garde use of pre built loops to
>accept it as ones art. 
>
>However on that same thought if you enjoy using loops do so and be happy,
>but call yourself something other then a composer. Its like calling a
>redneck with an IQ of 85 that he's a free thinker and an intellectual
>because he chose Schlitz instead of Pabst blue ribbon :P
>
>I will shaddap now before you all start calling me Lynne, I cant except it!
>
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