Quote my brain:
Everyone, poor and rich, as long as they have got a computer, they should have the same opportunities to use their creativity to express themselves musically.This is not really a ground breaking thought, still, think about it. Seriously, don't read more, stop and think about what this ideal would mean and perhaps how it fails. I just thought about it (good thinking me!) and came to the conclusion that this vision is partly fullfilled. It exists many programs and devices that you can make music with and you don't need any expensive equipment. You can of course play an instrument, but we are talking electronic music production here, or else we wouldn't be here?
Also the reason we are talking electronic music production is because at some point in the process every popular song today must have been trough a computer in its making, and often most of it has been created on the computer. So in that case, you and I should have the same percentage chance of creating the next hit with a free music program, if we are somewhat decent producers of course. Point is, you don't, I don't, and no one can create the next hit in one program which is open source because there are no good enough softwares. Or so it seems, it could also be that when you get good enough, even though the programs you use are enough, they aren't enough...
A creation in a free program should be able to become just as good as a creation in an expensive software would.I know I am writing about this like a human right, but for me, it seems unfair that some people can become famous if they got the money, at least in the music business, because people of the world cannot listen to noise and call it music. The unfairness lays, as usual, in that some people is actually better at making music than others, but they don't have the chance or money to do it even if they want. This is practically an impossible thing to correct, but I am making an effort through LMMS. Laying the basis with a program that could evolve into a decent competitor to FL studio on the areas sound and compositon. Audacity could be the mixer and mastering tool, although I feel both have a long way to go before matching any commercial software.
