Behringer System 100

[Jay Vaughan]

> On 17.01.2020, at 22:04, paula at synth.net wrote:
> So, you'd be happy with someone selling your music for a 1/10th of the price you do?
> It makes music affordable to many more people around the world, so that's good for music by the same token?
> 


I’ve never felt that musicians should make money from their music, per se - but rather from their performances.  I know that’s a bit of a wonky position, but I plan to never make a thin red dime from my music - but always get paid for gigs.  Its been good for me so far, but I’m not a professional musician in any way.  So this argument doesn’t really jibe.  And I also don’t have a big investment in the identity of ‘being a musician’ - everyone knows my music is crap.  That’s okay, I do it for myself anyway.

I’d be pretty pissed off if someone stole my firmware from a hardware synth and turned it into a soft-synth.  That’d be a fair analog to your position, I think.  But that’s not happening (as far as I can tell) with Behringer.

Did you notice that the Behringer Neutron now has a third-party firmware for it, which adds polyphony and a few other features?  THAT is something I’m VERY excited about happening in the synth world - there needs to be a lot more of this type of hacking going on, imho.

> you don't buy a rolex for your first watch.
> So I think that comparison is a bit "unrealistic”.

*I* don’t buy a Rolex for my first watch, but if I had $1 for every time I’ve seen “professional/semi-pro” musicians make the statement “I’m just getting a MOOG, its the best synthesiser ever made”, without having played it, I’d be able to afford my own original MOOG System 55.

> as has spotify, lots of people are listening to more music, whilst the artists gets less for their work.
> 


This is a problem that still hasn’t been solved, and part of the reason for that, I think, is that musicians who want to become rich from their music are violating one of the basic physical laws of the universe.   Musicians should get rich from their performances - but let the music be free.  It guides fans to the gigs.

;)

j.