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

I agree completely...

there's jobs to do to pay the rent which have nothing to do with art.

there is art.

knowing the difference is called integrity.

why am I still trying to be artistic when I do jingles is my question to
myself. Guess I am an integrity addict...

teddybut

I hear ya bro!

> why am I still trying to be artistic when I do jingles is my question to
> myself. Guess I am an integrity addict...