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“For a song you need midi” Pretty sure the Beatles never handed George Martin any midi files. What’s the symbolic representation that captures the tone of ever

“For a song you need midi” Pretty sure the Beatles never handed George Martin any midi files. What’s the symbolic representation that captures the tone of every bend in a Hendrix solo? Did Daft Punk go back and grab the raw master stems of the old vinyl recordings they used to assemble their tracks? Music producers have been astonishingly creative given inputs in a vast range of formats. Sheet music and midi are one tool, but ultimately it’s about combining sounds in the mix isn’t it?

woolion 4y ago
Why do you strawman my argument? The issue with combining sounds in the mix is the issues add up in a super-linear way. Because of that you could even say that modern music producers tend to care too much about perfect sounds. The Beatles did not have the same production requirement modern music have since there is high-fidelity equipment. The music industry as a whole changed a lot. Modern music production have multiple passes just to clean up one "perfect vocal take", like de-essing, breath removal, etc. This is insanely more advanced than what was the standard in the 60s. I'm not saying it's better either. >What’s the symbolic representation that captures the tone of every bend in a Hendrix solo? That's not how music works. You refer to the score, and the precise way you bend your tones is up to your interpretation. Even if you wanted to copy one-to-one Hendrix, you'd copy the style, not one performance exactly, so capturing every little bend does not really matter. Which could be an AI project: Hendrixify a guitar track.
- jameshart 4y ago
  Pretty sure the only score Jimi ever referred to was scoring some weed. My point is that performances are as valid an input to music production as anything else. And that these generative snippets are potentially a source of ‘performances’ that producers will tap in creative and interesting ways.

woolion 4y ago

Why do you strawman my argument? The issue with combining sounds in the mix is the issues add up in a super-linear way. Because of that you could even say that modern music producers tend to care too much about perfect sounds. The Beatles did not have the same production requirement modern music have since there is high-fidelity equipment. The music industry as a whole changed a lot. Modern music production have multiple passes just to clean up one "perfect vocal take", like de-essing, breath removal, etc. This is insanely more advanced than what was the standard in the 60s. I'm not saying it's better either. >What’s the symbolic representation that captures the tone of every bend in a Hendrix solo? That's not how music works. You refer to the score, and the precise way you bend your tones is up to your interpretation. Even if you wanted to copy one-to-one Hendrix, you'd copy the style, not one performance exactly, so capturing every little bend does not really matter. Which could be an AI project: Hendrixify a guitar track.

jameshart 4y ago
Pretty sure the only score Jimi ever referred to was scoring some weed. My point is that performances are as valid an input to music production as anything else. And that these generative snippets are potentially a source of ‘performances’ that producers will tap in creative and interesting ways.