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has the growing availibility of production reduced value and quality of trance ?
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| Trancevision |
Since 5 - 7 years lots of different programms have made the
virtual studio available for almost anybody on this planet owning a pc and being interested in the production of music.
Lots of software synths, virtual mixers and an unlimited amount of samples have made it possible to produce complete tracks on your own PC.
Although this is not always a very easy thing many people succeed in publishing or spreading their music all over the world.
There are more trance/techno songs available than ever before and I wonder how many tracks are created and spread over the internet from day to day.
There are people who complain about the musical and technical quality, because there is often an audible difference between a track composed by professionals and produced in an 50000$ studio and others, who are "in the buisness" since onyl 3 years and use a PC/Mac as their main production tool.
What do you think? Has the availibily of production software and samples positive or negative consequences for our music?
Does the kill the music or innovate the process of trance creation?
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| Aquarian |
I wouldn't say it kills the music itself. Just because there's millions of tracks out there, doesn't mean you have to listen to all of them. You find an author you like, and so you look for more works by that author. The problem is that it makes it that much harder for the good ones to get noticed. How do you convince someone to listen to one track out of millions? What makes this track so special?
When rock & roll started, there was Elvis, only Elvis, and he was the king. Now? There's thousands of Elvisses, and none of them are kings. |
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| dj christian |
| There's been a degrade in quality for shure there's no doubt. Access to a wider much cheaper studio equipment that u can run from the computer has made this more avaliable than ever before to the masses. As you staded those so called newbies hatch bad quality eggs over the whole place that makes those truly expetional gems made my proffessionals harder to discover. There's not as much innovation as before because of this. They are ruin everything. Not quantity it should be QUALITY!!!!! Just my opinion. |
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| DOOMBOT |
| The way I see it, it really doesn't matter because those tracks produced with lesser quality equipment will never make it to the top. |
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| flavdave |
| quote: | Originally posted by DOOMBOT
The way I see it, it really doesn't matter because those tracks produced with lesser quality equipment will never make it to the top. |
I'm pretty sure there are a good number of tracks produced exclusively with software that get a release nowadays. |
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| DOOMBOT |
| quote: | Originally posted by flavdave
I'm pretty sure there are a good number of tracks produced exclusively with software that get a release nowadays. |
Sure they will get a release but my point was that dj's that like to spin quality tunes probably won't mess with them. |
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| Floorfiller |
| as i always say...i think that the availability of software has really flooded the music industry with a lot of average productions. i think its such a great thing that people can access and produce music that they love. the only problem is that labels release far too many tracks that just don't cut it. i hear about people making tracks in two days or less and thinking that they've created something great....well in my opinion something like that being produced is not going to be that strong. more effort is needed and i'm sure most of the great tracks out there have taken more than a melody made in 30 minutes and a finished track in about a day...i just really think that a lot of producers these days don't have the imagination or creativity to make something new and innovative. they are stuck trying to copy that which they've heard... |
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| Kia Kaha |
Just because there's a million crap songs being produced out there now by people who don't know what they're doing, doesn't mean there's less good trance tunes being produced by the people who have got the talent.
I'm totally in favour of the widespread availability of cheap production software technology, mainly because it means that the people who have got skills and haven't got millions of £££ can still produce amazing sounding stuff.
Listen to some of our own TAs, Kuffdam or Luke Terry's stuff for example (which he's sharing right here on TA in the producers section, as well as releasing it commercially). I haven't spoken to Luke but I read on one of the threads, he reckons he does all his remixing with Fruity Loops. Bloody amazing ... total pro-studio quality sound all done on a program that costs less than one turntable. Probably if we were living 10 or 20 years ago, the guy would never have got into production because he wouldn't have been able to afford the gear, and trance would be poorer for it. |
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| Floorfiller |
| quote: | Originally posted by Kia Kaha
Just because there's a million crap songs being produced out there now by people who don't know what they're doing, doesn't mean there's less good trance tunes being produced by the people who have got the talent.
I'm totally in favour of the widespread availability of cheap production software technology, mainly because it means that the people who have got skills and haven't got millions of £££ can still produce amazing sounding stuff.
Listen to some of our own TAs, Kuffdam or Luke Terry's stuff for example (which he's sharing right here on TA in the producers section, as well as releasing it commercially). I haven't spoken to Luke but I read on one of the threads, he reckons he does all his remixing with Fruity Loops. Bloody amazing ... total pro-studio quality sound all done on a program that costs less than one turntable. Probably if we were living 10 or 20 years ago, the guy would never have got into production because he wouldn't have been able to afford the gear, and trance would be poorer for it. |
that's why i blame the record labels. nothing wrong with talented producers utilizing technology to spread their music...i'm just saying record labels have been signing a lot of crap from people that really don't understand music... |
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| DOOMBOT |
| Kia and Floorfiller both have the right ideas in this thread I think. Both bringing great points to the thread. Combine them both and that is pretty much how I feel about the entire thing. All in all, I think it is great that there is a growing availability to trance. Let's just keep it less commercial. (Another topic of discussion). :) |
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| Exodus17 |
im all for it...
yeah there are plenty of mediocre tunes out there but at the same time theres plenty of good tunes as well... cool thing about such a huge availability of tunes is that we'll always have something new to dance to... IMO if it makes me want to dance, its a good tune... and lately ive been finding a bunch of those which is never a bad thing |
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| Floorfiller |
| quote: | Originally posted by Exodus17
im all for it...
yeah there are plenty of mediocre tunes out there but at the same time theres plenty of good tunes as well... cool thing about such a huge availability of tunes is that we'll always have something new to dance to... IMO if it makes me want to dance, its a good tune... and lately ive been finding a bunch of those which is never a bad thing |
yeah i'm definitely happy overall with electronic these days. i do a lot of digging to find the tracks that i really like...and those are very well worth it. |
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