The Logic Off Topic list

--- In logic-ot@y..., Hendrik Jan Veenstra <h@k...> wrote:

> What annoys me is illustrated by the following anecdote:
> I'd just bought Logic and the Digi 001, and had hooked all gear up, 
> booted LA, and started playing some piano on my synth while recording 
> in LA.  You know, the first fooling around with new toys.  After some 
> 100 bars, there seemed to be a midi problem -- random notes, note 
> bursts, etc.  Later this appeared to be the now well-known midi bug 
> in the 001.  However, I phoned my dealer, told them about the 
> problem, and they said they'd never heard of it or encountered it 
> themselves.
> After some more experimenting they were able to confirm the problem, 
> which only seemed to surface after sufficient time had elapsed, or 
> after a sufficient number of notes had been played.  Of course I 
> asked them how it was possible that no-one had ever reported the 
> problem and why they hadn't run into it before -- after all, _my_ 
> Digi001 wasn't the first they sold.
> The answer was revealing: "we don't try out equipment for 100+ bars 
> ourselves (which imo is reasonable), and (and that's the annoying 
> thing) apparently none of our other customers plays 100 bars of 
> piano.  Probably most of our customers play 4 or 16 bars and start 
> cutting and pasting."

LOL. This says either something about the development team of this company or soemthing about their marketing department.
Either they don't bother to develop the MIDI side of things correctly, since their aim is the audio side, or the marketing department told them "Listen guys, you gotta cut on the development, cause we can't sell that card for that price". I hope there is an update in the future this bug.

About that cutting and pasting thing: a lot of music is produced only that way nowadays. That's why the chart stuff is so boring. Cheap, fast and the same thing. People don't learn to play keyboards any more, I think. Unless you do jazz stuff, with improvisation.
So these MIDI sequencers have created some other types of musicians: musicians who only work with short fragment of MIDI or audio, which they copy and paste in an editor and add interesting nuances with realtime fx or automation.
I don't condemn this, but it makes interacting, what is a part of music to my knowledge, very restricted. You can only use the tools the editor, in our case Logic, supplies you.
What I would like to see in some of these apps like Logic is to have some ways to use it more as an instrument. Touch tracks is a step towards that.
Would be intersting to say "hey, I'm a Logicist" instead of I'm a guitarist. On second thougt, that 'cist' part there sounds nasty, :-).
Yoonchi.