Reply To: Sonokinetic – 12 Days of Xmas – Day 5 – Maximo 80€ (norm 249)

[Peter DeLegge]

On Kirean said

I think last year it was around the 10th day.

I kinda like how Maximo sounds but are phrase-based libraries truly worth while?

Seems like there’s a limit and finite number of compositions you get out of them? Like, it’s far more likely and easier for two people to come up with the same patterns using them than with sample based libraries?

I suppose that’s also the reason why I don’t use ready made loops.

I have a few Sonokinetic phrase based libraries I picked up in past Christmas giveaways and it’s definitely not a fit for me. I’ve been making multi-track recordings since I was a little kid recording piano, organ, mandolin, guitar, drums, harmonica and vocals. I’m not interested in someone else’s loops or phrases. Even with really bad tendinitis that keeps me from being a decent musician knowing that I can’t play very well anymore, I still want to record me playing, not use someone else’s loops or MIDI. As a working musician, I lived to play, I loved to play. I quit the most successful band I played in when they started doing pre-recorded lip sync performances. To me the whole point of playing is to express myself creatively, not to use someone else’s playing. Unless it’s actual collaborators where we play off of one another, I’d rather have my crap performance than someone else’s loops.

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