why does it matter so much to you Zhao? I mean if you made a decision to use ableton or traktor or whatever, and you based it on your own reasons and reasoning which you find sound and good, why do you care if other people frown upon it?
i think the question of honesty is an important one when it comes to creative work. and i don't like it when it is falsely applied:
honesty is respecting the specific medium and context you are working in, paying attention to, and utilizing its particular freedoms and limitations.
and not trying to look/sound/feel like something else.
so in this sense, something that comes out of the studio should categorically NOT sound like a live recording.
similarly, a live performance must not be a pre-recorded sequence in its entirety.
these things i believe are important, because procedural rigor lends that much more power and elegance to the finished product, while cheating both cheapens and robs experience of vitality.
it's a matter of principle, you see. i could give a fuck what people think of how i do things.
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