Software vs Hardware

[zerocrossing]

This will but the final nail in the coffin of this stupid topic.

A week and a half ago, our 30 year old furnace died. According to a few people, it's not repairable, due to lack of parts. My hardware adorned studio is the warmest room in the house. My daughter's room where she does her homework on a laptop needs a space heater or it's freezing. BOOM. Hardware wins.

[El°HYM]

Our fully analog Vorwerk - Kobold is still working fine after all of these years.

[frag]

Nah, let me wish you good Luck... on my personal foes - list.

Your foes list has been updated successfully.

I was mostly talking to BONES.

You know that track CHARIOTS OF PUMPKINS (1982)?
It's a mockery of Vangelis' Chariots of Fire (1981).
Carpenter & Howarth were frustrated with Vangelis' success, they couldn't understand his creative process.
So they made this linear, predictable track and called it "Chariots of pumpkins".
It's a reaction to Vangelis' music. An opposite.

Bones is simply reflecting Carpenter - his lack of musical talent, his obsession with death etc. In a way, Carpenter is a genius, he makes money from nothing.

[El°HYM]

[IvyBirds]

If Hans Zimmer's own words can't convince you that hardware has real value for professionals, I am just pissing in the wind here.

I think about Hans words all the time, thanks so much for bringing him up. It's cute you are impressed with a video from 9 years ago. Here is one from 9 months ago in his studio



You will notice several things, first he is in a room full of modular Synths that he is not using, instead he is using a Minimoog inspired virtual instrument. On a computer with a midi controller and his own custom programmed controller


Amazing how in a Room full of hardware he is singing the praises of software and why the Software version is better than the hardware

So while you posted a video from 9 years ago, I just posted one from 9 months ago. A lot changed over the past 9 years

And here is another fantastic video, this time from the BBC


It shows Hans working on the Soundtrack for Frozen Planet II. Pay close attention to how a true professional who has won two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, five Grammy Awards, and has been nominated for three Emmy Awards and a Tony Award is using a computer, some MIDI controllers and plugins

Maybe you should tell him how it would be faster and more professional if he used hardware synths in studio.

Here is another great video of Hans from five years ago



This time he talks about how Cubase and custom programmed controllers are the heart of his studio, and how 99% of the time he is using samples on his computer.

He goes on talk about how he built his sample library over time and how he brings in world class musicians to play things like a stradivarius violin so he can make samples

Weird how a guy that who is so successful, who has sold 4 million records, who has has a net worth of $200,000,000 . Who has a giant room full of hardware synths and could buy literally any hardware synth he wanted, is using samples 99% of the time played on plugins inside of Cubase on a computer

You might say as professional he sees the value in a computer and software so much that in his own words, he is using them 99% of the time in studio as a working professional

When he literally could use any equipment or gear that he wanted

Maybe you should go lecture him on how he should be a real professional or something and not use software 99% of the time in his professional studio work

[Gam456]

You will notice several things, first he is in a room full of modular Synths that he is not using, instead he is using a Minimoog inspired virtual instrument. On a computer with a midi controller and his own custom programmed controller

Hans Zimmer will use anything to make his music. He don't care about software or hardware, digital or analog. He have a wall of modular synth on a wall next to a Virus Ti and Zebra on the PC.
An open mind musician.

[Gam456]

Bones is simply reflecting Carpenter - his lack of musical talent, his obsession with death etc. In a way, Carpenter is a genius, he makes money from nothing.

He wrote the most anticpated minimalist music for movie. He created a new style.

[El°HYM]

This thread is pure nonsense and just reflects the mediocre mindset of a true prosumer.

[Gam456]

This thread is pure nonsense and just reflects the mediocre mindset of a true prosumer.

Why are you on here wasting your time?

[El°HYM]

This thread is pure nonsense and just reflects the mediocre mindset of a true prosumer.

Why are you on here wasting your time?

Why are you on here wasting your time?

[crimsonwarlock]

Why are you all here, wasting MY time

[jethrobull]

I use software to control my software. I use hardware to control my hardware. I use software to control my hardware. I use hardware to control my software.

[IvyBirds]

You will notice several things, first he is in a room full of modular Synths that he is not using, instead he is using a Minimoog inspired virtual instrument. On a computer with a midi controller and his own custom programmed controller

Hans Zimmer will use anything to make his music. He don't care about software or hardware, digital or analog. He have a wall of modular synth on a wall next to a Virus Ti and Zebra on the PC.
An open mind musician.

And yet he is using software 99% of the time for his professional work

Despite the narrative being pushed that true professionals use hardware because it fosters and the unwashed masses of hobbyists are unable to see the value of it

[SoftSynthLover99]

You will notice several things, first he is in a room full of modular Synths that he is not using, instead he is using a Minimoog inspired virtual instrument. On a computer with a midi controller and his own custom programmed controller

Hans Zimmer will use anything to make his music. He don't care about software or hardware, digital or analog. He have a wall of modular synth on a wall next to a Virus Ti and Zebra on the PC.
An open mind musician.

And yet he is using software 99% of the time for his professional work

Despite the narrative being pushed that true professionals use hardware because it fosters and the unwashed masses of hobbyists are unable to see the value of it

He is most definitely not using software for 99% of his professional work unless you are referring to using a DAW. He's using real musicians playing real instruments, full on orchestras for some scores, creating his own instruments as he did below for Dune 2, utilizing probably every tool that you could possibly think of be it software or hardware.

He talks about how the Expressive E OSMOSE was a big part of the recent Dune 2 score in this video, and how he created his own instruments and sounds for the score as well. If you think he is only using VSTs and a midi controller you are terribly mistaken and not paying attention.

[Tj Shredder]

But still, not everything is subjective in art.

But art is only art by its subjective content!
The skills and rules can be helpful to move the audience away from the known to the unknown. If your art only repeats the “objective” (I don’t want to call it content, because its the opposite of it) then you might make money, but you fail as artist.

So rational persons usually turn to these role models -
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Jarre's best stuff is based on Bach, it's a modern, reductionist, dark version of Bach. That's why it worked so good and sticked to our ears.

I prefer irrational artists. Jarre isn’t the best example, though he made some gems I adore, the majority of his music isn’t very interesting and far from the mastery of Bach, who wasn’t that known or successful in his time…
If a music will last for a long time, only time can tell…