On 5 Mar 2003 at 22:30, Mr. Liudas Motekaitis wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: David W. Fenton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 8:12 PM > Subject: Re: [Finale] TAN Blessing or Curse in disguise? > > On 5 Mar 2003 at 10:46, Tim Thompson wrote: > > > > > No matter what you do with a MIDI performance, the sounds are still > > > electronically produced, and most importantly, must be electronically > > > amplified through some sort of speaker system to be heard. > > > > I'm not so certain about that. The room can greatly color the sound > > to make it more acceptable. > > But MIDI *performances* are not what we are talking about. . . .
We're not? Seems to me that was what Dennis was talking about, composer controlled MIDI performances (where the composer acts as "conductor" of MIDI data, providing shape, phrasing and any other parameters that the controllers at his disposal allow). I take the attitude here that we should take the best the technology has to offer and consider whether that is artistic and moving. If so, then we can't dismiss the technology out of hand. If, on the other hand, we choose to take the worst that MIDI has to offer and argue against that, well, we've constructed a straw man, partly because Dennis wasn't really arguing for that in the first place, but also because 90% of everything is crap and you can't dismiss the 100% just because only 10% rises above the mundane. Well, I guess you can, but it won't make you look like a very serious debater. -- David W. Fenton | http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates | http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
