This attitude is problematic. No tool will ever replace fluency, and thousands of hours of tedious practice is the only way to get there. The only way. There are many hacks and shortcuts, but nothing will ever work better for you than your own mind, well trained.
Do you remember all the scales? I'm guessing that's a no, since there is like thousands of them.
No, but I would if I could. And I remember enough to improvise live with other musicians; I'm not always the best, but I know enough not to embarrass myself; and I know how to learn more quickly.
Problematic to whom, to me, you or the general public? I have a casual interest in how music production works but don't plan to do anything serious in it. I like to dabble around a bit and if I like what I make I am happy. There is no expectation that what I make will appeal to others, but if anyone likes something, I am happy too. I don't think this tool will make a good music producer or composer out of someone but…
It harms you. One day you'll want to accomplish something and you won't have the tools. There are thousands of musicians who quit for every one having fun. You will have a better, more fulfilling time if you study music.
What is that something? Why couldn't it wait until you have the tools? Is this like the time they would tell you in math class that you won't always have a calculator on you?
Unless I'm missing something, there doesn't seem to be any sort of demo I can check out (even in some limited form) without signing up. That's kind of a bummer since I've played around with various applications like this in the past but don't particularly want yet another account signup just to see how this one works.
Do you remember all the scales? I'm guessing that's a no, since there is like thousands of them.
No, but I would if I could. And I remember enough to improvise live with other musicians; I'm not always the best, but I know enough not to embarrass myself; and I know how to learn more quickly.
Did you consider that people might have different goals?
They should drop the buzzwords and call it what it is: A mobile app for creating music with other people.
I've used the iOS version and as a collaboration platform it works well. My garage project turned to it during lockdown and it was pretty amazing what you could do when it came to making demo versions of songs even without specialized interfaces ... I literally placed my phone on a chair with the mic facing the bass amp to record my take over the existing drum and guitar tracks. That sounded good enough to me, but one of the other members was able to extract all of the tracks including vocals into some other app and do an amazing job on the next mix.
For recording ideas, I have found it and similar apps like GarageBand less useful as they're loop-based and that's not how I approach writing music.
Problematic to whom, to me, you or the general public? I have a casual interest in how music production works but don't plan to do anything serious in it. I like to dabble around a bit and if I like what I make I am happy. There is no expectation that what I make will appeal to others, but if anyone likes something, I am happy too. I don't think this tool will make a good music producer or composer out of someone but…
It harms you. One day you'll want to accomplish something and you won't have the tools. There are thousands of musicians who quit for every one having fun. You will have a better, more fulfilling time if you study music.
I've been making music for close to 20 years now, and haven't retained a single piece of 'proper music theory', including names of the chords or notes I play. I've been in countless bands across genres, released albums with multiple artists as a producer, and have placed with major record label artists. Every time I try to 'study music' I feel boxed in creatively, and not knowing these concepts has not once hindered my ability to play music collaboratively or create it independently. What exactly can I not accomplish by not knowing a scale, again?
Problematic to whom, to me, you or the general public? I have a casual interest in how music production works but don't plan to do anything serious in it. I like to dabble around a bit and if I like what I make I am happy. There is no expectation that what I make will appeal to others, but if anyone likes something, I am happy too. I don't think this tool will make a good music producer or composer out of someone but…
It harms you. One day you'll want to accomplish something and you won't have the tools. There are thousands of musicians who quit for every one having fun. You will have a better, more fulfilling time if you study music.
I can feel your passion about this topic, so I guess music (and playing) is an integral part of your life. That is really admirable and I could imagine having the same passion about it if I'd focused on it from my childhood up.
I did chose a different path and now approaching 40 want to "do music" coming from the technical side. You could describe me as the youtube learner. I like to watch some music theory videos from time to time, but what I like even more is doing something and learning what works and what does not by making mistakes.
I am not afraid to make mistakes and am even happier if I discovered something on my own that probably any music student would have learned in the first class.
So I'll tip my hat to you for having such a deep passion for music, but I will still move along my own path
If you do not pay for a product, you are the product. So what's the catch here? Copyright of the music is theirs? They listen 24/7 ?
It's free, but they have some additional hardware they sell. Founder's dad is a palm oil billionaire from Malaysia, maybe that's how they can keep it free? Dunno. It's a great product, I really like it.
I've been working on an IDE for music composition. Launching soon http://ngrid.io
What makes it an IDE and not a sequencer with intellisense-like features/ more presets?
I mean, call it whatever you want, but "IDE for music" conveys the idea better than "sequence with intellisense-like features/other things". But I'll also have some advanced color coding, version control, and "refactoring".
Do they still have trouble with the memory limits on browsers? A couple years ago I remember they couldn't handle more than 10 minutes of audio, which was the dealbreaker for me at the time.
And did they kill Cakewalk's products or just transfer ownership? I was never a user, just remember the acquisition.