Re: [microsound] microsound future

[Joshua Maremont <thermal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:29 PM 12/21/00 -0800, dave palmer wrote:
> we'll all get bred out. it's like making androids that are smarter and
> better than humans and that can breed and take over the world. if the
> equipment to make the music was free as well(and i realize things like logic
> and cubase basically are, but keyboards and tube mic pres are not!) then
> noone could afford to make them and this music wouldn't be possible at all.

I have not followed Steinberg's pricing for Cubase lately, but last time I 
priced Logic my upgrade to Platinum 4 was about US$350, with a full version 
set at nearly twice that (and more than my Bassstation keyboard or my 
Waldorf Pulse+).  Although Seagrams might get tearful in public over the 
Napsterization of its product, its previously disclosed financials show a 
plush buildup of reserves for any technological winter in the current 
entertainment climate.  Emagic, however, has about 40 employees according 
to recent postings on the Logic list, so a world in which Logic (and 
Cubase) are "basically" free (and manuals are freely posted PDFs) will 
likely be a world without Logic or Cubase.  Maybe I am misreading the above...

ps - I have no top 10 list yet, but one of the underexposed underdogs of 
the last year for me was the Kodama compilation "Across the Cell Wall," on 
which plenty of the usual suspects turned in quite unusual and quiet works 
of atmosphere and ambience.

joshua maremont / thermal - mailto:thermal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
boxman studies label - http://www.boxmanstudies.com/