

That leverage long-form audio libraries requiring terabytes of data and Provide the same results achievable with today’s desktop workstation We can get closer to that mobile-carrying portion of the 10% of the While reducing those complexities that are barriers to adoption, perhaps If we also can improve the quality and musicianship of the delivery, Proportion of musicians with even more approachable technology marrying music production and technology. There are opportunities to go further, to appeal to an even greater The Opportunities to Advance Smart Music Production The cause of Truly Smart Music Creation is evolving. That’s great news for a generation of musicians. World’s 10% of musicians, if they have a mobile device, can get veryĬonvenient song-based backing music through iRealPro. Sounds rather than long-form audio of ‘real instruments’. It’s a deservedly popular app, albeit with standard MIDI note Perhaps the spiritual reincarnation of the original Band-In-A-Box application is realized for mobile devices in the form of Technimo’s iRealProĪpp. The Convenience and Ubiquity of Mobility irealpro as app Smart can mean talking the languages we’ve always spoken.
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Takes considerable commitment to master and PC and Mac workstationsĪren’t always convenient for the world’s 10% that are musicians.
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Not only the dollar costįor the software application and audio library but using the application Music Creation – which comes at a cost though. Than a single MIDI instrument ‘note’ as described earlier. The development of Long-form Audio complementing MIDIīand-In-A-Box even addresses the sound-quality issue of the MIDI instruments by including high-quality, long-form audio – “Real Drums” and other “Real Instruments” where the audio is much longer-form Band-In-A-Box truly is Smart Music Creation.īand-In-A-Box has grown and grown over that time to a massiveĪpplication with every conceivable feature – a real tour de force of It doesn’t rewrite musical terminology, it adopts it and extends what can be done with it. Importantly, the interface or ‘language’ of theĪpplication is that of traditional music notation and concepts. Of the songs they play and to provide backing music for enjoying and This delivered on its promise of providing The first, mass-adoption innovation from MIDI was the song-based accompaniment application – PG Music’s “ Band-In-A-Box”Īvailable on PCs and Macs. For truly ‘Smart Music’ what we need is to goįurther, more intimately marrying technology with music production. We shouldn’t blame MIDI for what we have, and haven’t, done with it Enablement versus Truly Smart Music Creation


Leading to bad experiences and a bad reputation for the technology. Substandard performances have been codified and rendered with MIDI, Superb musicianship and great music production. Have to mean sub-standard music – it can, if used with care, mean Great performances have been captured using MIDI recording. That’s not just a new type of instrument, it is a way of codifying the playing of any and all instruments.Ĭomplete orchestral scores have been codified and rendered with MIDI. It automates the playing of the instruments byĮncoding and reproducing the act of playing The MIDI platform has been around for 30 years or more and deserves Enter – Musical Instrument Digital Interface ( MIDI) That’s not smart really, it is just a different type of instrument. Drum Machines and Synthesizers are really new musical instruments lending themselves to new musical sounds and therefore new genres of music. ‘ Smart Music Creation‘ could perhaps be considered to be where computerized devices help with the creation of music – the synthesizer, the drum machine, and MIDI generally.

With ‘music’, the term ‘ digital‘ has been used for the distribution of consumer music in a ‘ digital form‘ – Audio-CD, mini-discs, DAT and later the revolution of online distribution through the iTunes Music Store. “ Smart” often means that technology has been added to something that previously had not had it. Smart often means managing the complexity
