EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

On a fine day, 08-03-2003, Edmund Eagan wrote:

>  > Not on my planet it hasn't...  Hell, I've got LPs from the 60ies
>>  where all musicians manage to miss each other by half a beat or
>>  something -- which doesn't take away from the emotional content at
>>  all...  It's just very sloppy playing, but I can live with that if
>>  the music is good enough.
>
>I agree with the last half of your paragraph, but Nick still had a
>valid point. Just because a musician misses by half a beat doesn't mean
>that was not their musical intention.

Uhm, I mean I have LPs where the musicians miss each otehr by half a 
beat _unintentionally_.  Just sloppy playing or whatever.

>It's up to the musician to
>decide, not inaccurate time-stamping by a computer. THAT was his point.

Well, if that was the point then I agree.  Sure, a machine should be 
as exact as possible -- human timing already is sloppy enough as it 
is in general, without machines adding to that.  The point to which I 
responded though was that exact timing was supposed to be _the_ 
carrier of musical emotion -- which is again a quite different thing 
imo.

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