Comments on: electronic music “live” part 1 http://darktwincities.com/dtcblog/2009/06/electronic-music-live-part-1/ Skulls, Bones and Unicorns Fri, 04 Nov 2011 22:14:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: crunchpod http://darktwincities.com/dtcblog/2009/06/electronic-music-live-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-430 crunchpod Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:42:30 +0000 http://darktwincities.com/dtcblog/?p=1757#comment-430 If you're playing a softsynth VST with a midi controller live, you can pretty much get by running a 1/8" to dual 1/4" cable into a DI and not need an external sound card. Just because you don't see a breakout box doesn't mean there isn't sound coming out of a laptop... just sayin'. If you’re playing a softsynth VST with a midi controller live, you can pretty much get by running a 1/8″ to dual 1/4″ cable into a DI and not need an external sound card. Just because you don’t see a breakout box doesn’t mean there isn’t sound coming out of a laptop… just sayin’.

]]> By: rskm1 http://darktwincities.com/dtcblog/2009/06/electronic-music-live-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-426 rskm1 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:02:15 +0000 http://darktwincities.com/dtcblog/?p=1757#comment-426 ^Razed<in>Black, that is. ^Razed<in>Black, that is.

]]> By: rskm1 http://darktwincities.com/dtcblog/2009/06/electronic-music-live-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-425 rskm1 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:01:33 +0000 http://darktwincities.com/dtcblog/?p=1757#comment-425 Oh yeah, and the racket produced by that live drummer they had at the last RazedBlack show singlehandedly RUINED the whole show... Oh yeah, and the racket produced by that live drummer they had at the last RazedBlack show singlehandedly RUINED the whole show…

]]> By: rskm1 http://darktwincities.com/dtcblog/2009/06/electronic-music-live-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-424 rskm1 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:00:18 +0000 http://darktwincities.com/dtcblog/?p=1757#comment-424 I think performers have an obligation to "perform", in the sense of "adding something to the concertgoing experience that you couldn't get in your car or on the couch with an iPod." But I don't really care whether what they're "doing" onstage is making any SOUND or not. It just seems like musician snobbery to me. Would you lambast a roofing contractor for using an electric nailgun instead of pounding each one in with a hammer? Why should MUSICIANS have to do everything manually, over and over again? It's not like they're plagiarizing someone ELSE'S work. (e.g. Milli Vanilli) I think performers have an obligation to “perform”, in the sense of “adding something to the concertgoing experience that you couldn’t get in your car or on the couch with an iPod.”

But I don’t really care whether what they’re “doing” onstage is making any SOUND or not.

It just seems like musician snobbery to me. Would you lambast a roofing contractor for using an electric nailgun instead of pounding each one in with a hammer? Why should MUSICIANS have to do everything manually, over and over again?

It’s not like they’re plagiarizing someone ELSE’S work. (e.g. Milli Vanilli)

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