If you could design a music product ..

[Andrew Tarpinian]

> On Jan 9, 2014, at 10:51 AM, Tony Scharf <entropymagnet at noisetheorem.com> wrote:
> 
> Because this kind of tool would be just a wondeful thing that would make music so much better for the listener.
> 
> Why not just make the entire music process into a single button push.  Press the button and instantly your a music star!
> 
> Musicians are a lazy bunch.  
> 
> Sorry, but this whole concept rubs me the wrong way.
> 
> Tony 
> 
> p.s. I enjoy working on arrangements.  Thats really were a bunch of noise becomes a song.

What I was trying to get at, is there is so much focus by the industry on making the "jam" or "sketching" phase of music production fun, controllable and intuitive. But what about the other part? Like you say, as electronic musicians a majority of the work and creative effort can be in arranging, editing, and mixing, and for that most software just leaves you flat. "Oh we gave you all this cool shit for the first part but now we give up, you're on your own." Perfect example is how Ableton Push basically just gives up in arrange mode*, it's like they stopped developing the product for 50% of the program. It seems there has there been no real innovation in the ideas of how you can arrange, edit, and mix a track. I like editing as much as the next guy, but does it really need to work like a spreadsheet? Is that the only way?

When you think about it why does it need to feel like there is a second part? Why can't we just have what feels like 1 part?

*I do use it quite a bit in arrange mode but just as a keyboard
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