If i had a brilliant creative mind, and an amazing ear for composition, but an out of tune upright piano, how is it "cheating" for me to use this program?
You mean other than the fact that it's cheaper and will provide far better results to just have the damn thing tuned?
No real musician in their right mind would ever use an inferior, defective or out-of-tune instrument for recording purposes unless they were purposely going for such an effect.
You are throwing up kind of a false analogy there anyway; we're not talking about defective instruments, we're talking about defective performers, or more to the point, God-awful performers.
Purists of any kind are insane.
Wow, That's pretty large.
I do not envy the man who sees the ability to make his dreams a reality as "cheating".
I do not envy the man (or woman) who is willing to cut every corner they can try to make their dreams a reality by simply phoning it in and letting some computer program actually do all the work for them.
If one has the dream of being a great musician or even performer and works their ass off for it, that's wonderful. If one has the dream of pretending to be a great musician or performer by just kicking it easy and expecting a bunch of programming code give them the illusion of greatness, that's pathetic.
This program isnt so you dont have to know how to play, its so you can salvage moments of inspired performance with some control over the pitch.
If used that way, fine. Though it's amazing how the world has managed to get through almost a full century of recording just fine without it, without sacrificing quality or imagination.
But let's be realistic here. For the average person to say that they bought Melodyne for salvaging otherwise lightning-in-a-bottle takes is very much like Iran saying they are building their nuclear reactors with the purpose of supplying electricity to their country. Sure, that's what the reactors can be and are best used for, and Iran might even hook up a couple of transmission lines once they are built. But only someone with an IQ equal to the average indoor temperature where they live would believe that is the actual main reason they are building them.
In the real world, not the world of the ideal that exists on the far side of the imagination, 90% of the use for Melodyne and Autotune is to try and make non-performers into performers. This just has an intrinsic wrongness to it on about nine different levels.
PS New music sucks at the inspiration and songwriting level, far before pitch comes into play. (MOST new music)
P.P.S. People have been complaining that "new music sucks" since the says of Plato. Mozart played the devil's music. So did Ellington. So did Presley. Now that's all considered classic and holy.
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