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[Andrew Tarpinian]

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Romain / rXg <xtechcode at gmail.com> wrote:

> About  Push : imo is nothing less than a controller binding; Launch pad,
> machine, mpc ideas together ...
>

That is the point, though. Native all in one unit.


> And it s like they developed kind of  Novation automap concept only for
> ableton ... if it s really the case they are not really innovative imo ...
>

Don't forget Ableton made things like the Launchpad and APC with Novation
and Akai, they were partners and those were "official" instruments. So
Ableton is not new to the game, those were experiments and this is the
prime ableton branded result.

>
> The question I asked myself with those new devices is :
> Should we really play music without thinking ?
> I mean ... plugging an electrical  device and pushing buttons (all
> pre-setup by engineer) makes you a musician-composer ?
>

Isn't that what a piano is? Also I'm sure you can select whatever mode you
want for the most part, just pick chromatic.


> Just do a experience, put all those neophyte musicians all together with
> their machines-maker and the result is: they can'T play together any
> harmonies, variations .. just chaos stuff comes out and of course you will
> need drugs to appreciated it ... in 4\4!
>

actually, they would play in harmony because they could all select the same
key


> Ok, now i go back to the circle of fourth and fifth to be able to play
> with other real musicians who knows what is a key !  :)
>
> Don t take it personally ... You are a very good musician as the most
> barians on the list and i hope that push will bring you a better workflow
> for your creativity, but in general i really wonder where the world is
> going with all this technology against theory  as i mentioned above ...
>

I'll argue that a laymen playing on Push with the scales etc, set-up is
making music more in tune with traditional music theory, vs. how I usually
work which is messing around with the keyboard playing things that sound
good to my ear, having no idea what the chords are called.
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