Comment on Apple crushes creativity and its reputation in new iPad ad
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 1 month agoSo the solution to that is to only make paint-by-numbers music that Apple will allow you to make with their pre approved apps? That sounds like a good way to end up with a lot of mediocre easily digestible music that all sounds the same…
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 1 month ago
There are plenty of apps that let you do your own thing. Don’t blame the software for musicians being derivative. People have created amazing digital music with significantly less technology. Maybe you just don’t like that people without a formal background (rich people) have the opportunity to make bad (and good) music.
It sounds like your only problem is that you have to use the App Store. So what app was denied by Apple but is available on Android? Yeah, I didn’t think so.
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I have been playing guitar for nearly 20 years. My family has never been rich, which meant I got the most affordable guitar available (which cost MUCH less than an iPad even accounting for inflation) when I started.
I knew absolutely nothing about how to play it and taught myself for the first year from stuff I found in magazines. When it became apparent that I wasn’t going to just abandon the thing in the closet my parents agreed to get me lessons for this costly sum of $25 a week.
Since then I have have scrimped and saved to get nicer instruments when I could afford them, and they mean a lot to me so I take care of them and play them often.
When making music becomes reduced to a game from WHICHEVER app store, it loses all meaning because there is zero invested in it. I’m sure there will be a few people who actually manage to make real music this way despite the limitations, but for most people it will just be a toy they lose interest in like Candy Crush or something.
If it were easy to play decent music then everyone in the world would have a top 10 hit
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I’m sorry your music career didn’t pan out after all that work. Not everyone can be a musician.
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ah, just going straight into troll mode now huh? That’s too bad, I was enjoying our conversation…
Dumpdog@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Does anyone know an even slighty successful musician who uses a 5 year old iPad? Now, are there any slightly successful musicians that we can think of that use a 5 year old (affordable) guitar? Or a 5 year old computer? How about a cheap drum machine or sequencer? How about giving a kid anything but a $1000 iPad (or a 5 year old paperweight)
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
So right. I saw a DJ playing incredible chiptune off’a two original brick gameboys and two LSDJs and it was absolutely amazing. I wish I had the skill to do that.
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Have you heard the music they made from programming floppy drives to read music at different speeds?
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I think somebody here is mixing up performing music and composing it. Which have almost nothing in common.
I haven’t touched Apple stuff for composition (don’t even know what it is), but I seriously doubt it’s going to take away all the headache of learning music theory.
And when you do know music theory, you can use plenty of things for digital music. It’s just hard.
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I think a lot of people here are confused and angry at clouds.