Computer Generated Music Composition

[pf]

That sounds interesting! Let say the notes played of a violin in a song is sequenced all over the place. Then how does one know if its done by a person who knows nuts about violin or there are just 2 violins playing all over the place?

 

[jeremyspk]

Personally, I use Garageband to record my music for some purposes.
But before the recording can begin, I would have already written my song on with a piano or a guitar... So computer isn't everything. Know nuts about music, computers can't help you. So, one still need to learn how chords flow and stuffs...

So i would say, technology helps me to simulate how a band would play the new song i've written and also allow me to experiment with different style/moods/genre to present the newly written song... I don't need to find a full crew and a studio to do a recording.
And let say i'm doing a informal demo, i think computer is good enough.
my 2 cents

IT cannot replace music - IT is just an interface, a help, a robotic arm but not the experiment, etc. (if you watch ironman, u'll understand what i mean by robotic arm)

ADD ON:
Sampling clips and Apple Loops (they call it) can only do so much.
I tried recording my song with those loops. They sound fine (musically) but boring - really.
I realised I need to get up from my lazy bones to plug my guitar or midi controller in to do some stuffs which the loops can never do.
Loops can help, definitely, yet relying on them to do your music, that's insane! Oh come on...we don't all write technos and trance only, do we? (no offense to the genres peace)

 

[Griffin]

Computer music can't substitute live play, but it can sufficiently help in secondary music related tasks like recording, convertation, edding effects etc. I use different software to work with music, but personaly prefer to listen to live concerts.