<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">Hi,</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 January 2016 at 02:27,  <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spivkurl@wearerecords.com" target="_blank">spivkurl@wearerecords.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">No matter how often I try to explain to people that a piece of software cannot recreate a performance on a real instrument, I always have a bunch of people snapping at me...</blockquote></div><br>They're snapping at you because you sound like an old curmudgeonly crank who doesn't like any new things. Truly. And it's an extremely tired, extremely boring theme. It's almost certainly not the first time they've heard it. I believe this image sums it up perfectly:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="http://i.imgur.com/91sn32Q.jpg">http://i.imgur.com/91sn32Q.jpg</a></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">If they're happily making music that they (not you) like, why would they care about what tools you think "real musicians" use or should use? Who are you to tell them they're wrong? You might also consider that they may not actually *want* to "recreate a performance on a real instrument"</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">John</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div>