The Future of Music

[mart_haj86]

I beleive Nuendo is designed more for the Movie, Game, TV industries (although it is perfectly capable for music production). But I do know its doesnt work too well with Reason 3 when rewired (stability issues)

[BlindMelon7]

Yes, I suspected as much. It has functions for 10:2 suround and 200 tracks! Not that i think my computer could handle that!

[mart_haj86]

Some of us are'nt rich enough to afford nuendo either

Especially at around £1400

[BlackDwarf]

wasnt the whole point of the ozrics that they never used electronic equipment?

You kidding? I've never seen a band use SO MUCH electronic equipment!

Their equipment list:
Here

Two examples:

[BlindMelon7]

I just use limewire

[unreal]

I also vote for a positive future in music and also hugs propellorhead reason 3 tightly * but with rewire into cubase *

ReWire eats my RAM for breakfast


Also my X-Fi card has massive latency troubles with Cubase due to crappy AISO... or somethingorother...

(and the X-Fi update didn't fix anything ;_; )

[mart_haj86]

hmm, if you could borrow maybe a friend of yours, m-audio, e-mu or something along those lines soundcard you wouldnt look back.

[BlindMelon7]

I've never been a fan of soundblaster. I've had a few including an audigy 2 and all have been trouble (not that my m-audio one wasn't troublesome but that was something to do with the irqs on a crap mobo).

[BEANFro Elite]

I think the music industry is looking good and bad all at the same time.

In terms of organised big money spinning record labels the future is nigh as everytime a new technology medium comes out they try to stamp it out if they had nothing to do with it, look how long it took them to "adopt" file-sharing and that legal file-sharing.

On the other hand, the music industry has never been healthier as we are seeing smaller independant groups and bands becoming ever more successful through file sharing and the internet in general.

For the music industry to succeed on the shallow fame and money orientated side they have to at a minimum show less interest in money thats to say put the music and the people you're selling to before the money.

As for electronics in music, I'm all for it as long as its done tastefully as heard in the Prodigy, Slipknot, Marilyn Manson, The Locust and many other bands.

[unreal]

Ooo what about the evil force known as the RIAA using teh intarweb to sue anything that has a name... thats something to talk about ;o

[BlindMelon7]

Sorry, new to me. I googled them, whats so bad?

[BlindMelon7]

I should really stop using "feeling lucky". I see what you mean.

[Knoxville]

Massively. Digital is the only way forward now. Some enthusiasts will hang on to vinyl for DJing etc, but there will never be a new system for analogue storage. It’s pretty much pointless and not what people want or artists need. Heck, there will probably never be another phyisical media for digital after CD's either.

The Artic Monkeys won a Mercury Music Price tonight. Two years ago they were unheard of and broke because people heard them on the net and downloaded thier music. Thats the way it's going, like it or not.

But maybe i have missunderstood what you are asking, what did you have in mind?

The Arctic Monkeys used the net to promote themselves before they released the first single, before that however they handed out free demo cds at gigs to create a buzz around the band and create a local fan base. There has yet to be a truly successful fully internet promoted band, although the internet is becoming one of the greatest tool's in music today.

To be honest I don't think the music industry will ever fully embrace the possibilty of personal streaming digital audio players, there will always be the need for physical records, wether they be vinyl, cd, dvd or blu-ray. Theres a certain felling about it I find hard to describe, but even though I have hundreds of albums on my computer none of them mean anything compared to the real albums I own.

[BlindMelon7]

I know exactly what you mean, its phsycological, having a hard copy makes it feel more "real".

[autopilot]

The Arctic Monkeys used the net to promote themselves before they released the first single, before that however they handed out free demo cds at gigs to create a buzz around the band and create a local fan base. There has yet to be a truly successful fully internet promoted band, although the internet is becoming one of the greatest tool's in music today.

Yes, but their real break came from the success of the single that was posted free on the net. Knarls Barkelys (spelt wrong) 'crazy' reached number one on download sales entirely - it was not even available in the shops until it was a success.

But yeah, there has not a band that has only promoted via the web, but i downt think it will be long.

[unreal]

The singer Cassie, managed and produced by Ryan Leslie (under Badboy Records) gained the majority of her fame via the Internet and MySpace...