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Is a wavetable synth a musical instrument? It's just manipulating samples. Is a mellotron (1960s/70s tape-based instrument) an instrument? When you listen to th
by beat 11y ago
Is a wavetable synth a musical instrument? It's just manipulating samples. Is a mellotron (1960s/70s tape-based instrument) an instrument? When you listen to the "flute" part on the Beatles' "Strawberry Fields", is that a musical instrument? Mellotrons are much more primitive than modern samplers.
When a musician plays a "real instrument" to exactly imitate the part played by another musician, is it real music? If not, is classical or other forms of note-reading "real music"?
If you drop the prejudices and actually think about it, of course a sampler is an actual musical instrument.
- gnaritas 11y agoNope. It's real when it's being played by a person live, not a computer chip in a loop. It's real when the musician stops the music stops, not keeps going because it's really the computer playing it. Making music doesn't make one a musician, performing it live does. Lots of music is made in studios by producers that can't play a damn thing, they're still not musicians and neither is Kanye.