| With the arrival of synthesizers, contemporary | | | | recorded MIDI sequence, allowing it to have the |
| music has become an area where MIDI | | | | dynamics a real person would play when |
| performance rules over actual human beings | | | | performing. |
| playing their instruments in a live session in many | | | | This opens a whole world of possibilities in which |
| cases. The advantages are very clear: it is | | | | musicians might not be necessary at all. There |
| cheaper than hiring musicians, no more extra | | | | might come a moment in the future where all the |
| takes since you can edit MIDI performances, | | | | music you hear in the radio was created by |
| room acoustics lose importance, and many others. | | | | someone at his house with a laptop and a pair of |
| But is this enough? Are these synthesized sounds | | | | microphones. Some people think this is likely to |
| created with mathematic algorithms able to | | | | happen. |
| replace the human touch? I often think that a lot | | | | Nevertheless, I hold the opinion that synthesized |
| of the music produced by hobbyists sounds very | | | | music will keep its very important role in music, |
| generic or lifeless. The thing is that in the right | | | | just like today, but it will never replace having real |
| hands, these MIDI performances can rival the | | | | people playing musical instruments and creating |
| sound of live musicians. | | | | harmonious masterpieces. There is something |
| With innovations in technology we are getting | | | | about that sound, a very organic sound that will |
| closer and closer to replicating all the nuances a | | | | never be replaced by computers. Even if the |
| person can inject to a musical piece. For example, | | | | exact dynamics and all the other nuances were |
| Propellerhead Software has a component in | | | | copied, the result would still lack that feeling of |
| Reason 4 that can inject a certain groove in a | | | | being alive. |