My 2 cents on creativity vs presets.So damn lazyAnd it's all cover versions, as well! Can't get much less creative than that.Wendy Carlos "Switched-On Bach" was done entirely with presets.
While music production is a creative process, all steps of the process don't have to and SHOULDN'T be creative. Music is a subtle balance between expectations and surprises. If you release a music with unheard before sounds, using an unheard scale, using unheard structure using unheard production technique, your music will actually be perceived as noise. You need to keep points of references, in particular in view of the genre you are targeting.
Therefore part of the whole creativity process is to choose where you will be very innovative and where you will just follow trends. Historically for example, successful electronic music was 4 to the flour as it was so creative on the sound design part. Keeping the balance.
As a result, I reckon that people who are saying that if you use presets, you are not creative as a whole are just lacking maturity in their understanding of music production.
Statistics: Posted by Jac459 — Thu May 16, 2024 12:28 am