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He changed the chords that the audience selected and reordered them, first off. Furthermore, the demonstration does not prove or even suggest the thesis that "r
by prvc 7y ago
He changed the chords that the audience selected and reordered them, first off. Furthermore, the demonstration does not prove or even suggest the thesis that "repetition is what makes music beautiful", the end result being of questionable beauty, the element of repetition being unclear (is he referring to the looping, or the priming effect on the audience having heard it already, or something else?), and the relevance of the demo excerpt to the beauty or repetitiveness other music is left completely unaddressed.
- solipsism 7y agoIt's an Ableton ad disguised as a ted talk.
- mempko 7y agoIt worked, I was like 'what program is that?' and found Ableton Live. I then said 'What is the free software alternative?' and found LMMS and Ardour. Go with the free software folks.
- 72deluxe 7y agoI subscribed to Ardour for a while so that I could get the macOS version and the amount I paid towards Ardour I could have bought Logic Pro X that does about 500% more, including functioning MIDI, sorry to say. At the time Ardour did not have this, nor half of the other features I needed just for basic mixing and editing. Ardour development obviously has a very small team so they are constrained, but I am not sure going to Ardour simply because it is free software is a good reason if you actually want to get stuff done. Perhaps it has come on a lot since I used it. It relied on Jack under macOS when I used it, I think, which seemed odd to me instead of native audio bindings.
- telesilla 7y agoI assume they use Jack so they don't have to maintain separate OS-specific code (for audio, that is quite a significant task).
- 72deluxe 7y agoTrue. It was obviously a bit more awkward to use, that was all. Having said that, it was less frustrating that on Linux for me but that was back in the days of PulseAudio being garbage and Jack dropping samples left, right and centre on my sound card (using the ice module I think?). Anyway, I was just saddened by the money I spent on it versus the output I received. I ended up going to Logic Pro instead. EDIT: I wasn't trying to minimise the Ardour project's efforts BTW. It is a valiant effort and a monumental undertaking but I was more interested in making/recording music than software for that venture.
- fenomas 7y agoHe's speaking at an Ableton user event; the audience is Ableton users.
- stormbeard 7y agoI believe you're being unfair. Extending the chords is fair and so is voicing them to be close to each other. Neither of those count as "changing" the chords and the musicians in the audience knew this.
- prvc 7y agoAdding 7ths and 9ths certainly is changing the harmony, as is changing a diminished to a half-diminished chord (which also changes its function), so that element of the criticism is true and warranted. As for "fair", I think having one's (many people's!) time wasted by baiting them with a false promise, only to present them with something likely to produce confusion and frustration, is unfair.