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Subject: Re: [motm] Is making 'bad music' too easy?

From: Neil Bradley <nb@...>
Date: 2008-09-12

> Most people think it was all the DX-7's fault (followed then by the D-50,
> the M-1 and the WaveStation). But I think drum machines, samplers, and
> easy-to-use MIDI sequencing programs like Cakewalk turned 1000s of idle
> fanboys into "Hey, I'm a ∗musician!".

Nah. Reason (the software package) started the downfall. Now it's DJs who
think they are "musicians" by rearranging others' loops.

-->Neil

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C. Neil Bradley - KE7IXP - The one eyed man in the land of the blind is not
king. He's a prisoner.