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Possible list of motivations for playing an instrument (by hand)
What is the advantage (of playing by hand)?
Expression. How much space is between the first and second notes? How much space between the second and third? Which of those three notes is the loudest?...
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Possible list of motivations for playing an instrument (by hand)
Can't you just try out your tunes via a computer interface and play them when you want?
Then what is the difference?
The difference is the same as that between playing NBA on the Playstation or XBox ...
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Possible list of motivations for playing an instrument (by hand)
There are three components:
Ability for a computer to reproduce a sound of an instruments. This is done using virtual instrument, which developed a lot last years. It is certainly possible for a ...
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Possible list of motivations for playing an instrument (by hand)
There is a great difference between playing piano by hand and writing for piano on a computer (I do both). It's much easier to write down things on the computer but the recorded sound is different. ...
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Best way of transferring songs that were recorded onto floppy disk using a Clavinova CVP-103
If you decide to record the audio, an audio connecting cable would be easier, cheaper and sound better than a microphone.
Or you could persist with deciphering the MIDI files. If you find it hard to ...
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Possible list of motivations for playing an instrument (by hand)
With modern technology, it's pretty easy to just type some words on your phone and have a computer voice read them. Given that, why do people still speak words using their mouths? What's the advantage?...
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Blending Musical Genres To Create a New Genre
There are several programs already that generate music- for example, Dadabots (known for "relentless doppelganger" on Youtube), OpenAI Jukebox, and Google's Magenta. Some skip the whole &...
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