EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Wow... deep dude. I enjoyed your story. Personally, I don't feel bad about
presets. Would you consider an acoustic guitar to be a preset? Funny if
that's the case. That would suggest to me that you should invent your own
instrument so that it doesn't sound like a guitar. No... I think presets are
fine. It's when the ability to arrange notes musically isn't present that
creativity is called into question. If you're going to make a work of art,
you don't grab a painting someone else left half-finished and mass-produced.
You start from scratch. To go further with this metaphor, you do use paint
colors manufactured by paint companies (presets). BUT you are responsible
for every brush stroke (no prefab loops, etc.). That is art, as opposed
commercialism. If someone wants to pay me $5000 to have me write music to
sell a tube of toothpaste, I don't think I'd feel bad about throwing
together a few loops and backing sequences and a melody. But if I'm trying
to share my vision and effect change in the world, I'll do it without being
under the influence (of Acid for example... the program; not the drug).
Anyway, I think I've made my position clear. There's a time and a place for
commercial speed and ideals. If it's not art, who cares. If it is, I care.
Or perhaps it just constitutes a collaboration with someone whose ideas are
available to millions of other people. Things that make you go hmmmm. -Jer

> It raises some interesting questions about using commercial loops and even
> presets from instruments.
> How much do we "lean" on other peoples talents for our own completed tracks?
> It's a big subject.
> Phil Buckle.