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It's like a musical game of memory, except if you forget a block live a few hundred youngsters will boo you.

the future of dancefloors.

It's the game of Twister... for your fingers... using a 8 board.

I'm surprised people are so excited about this since this sort of tech has been around for a while. I'd still much rather have a Jazz Mutant Lemur if wanted to mess around with digital music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59JFTisR-oc

"It's like playing a musical instrument, except if you get the chords wrong the crowd will think less of your skills as a musician.">> ^PancakeMaster:
It's like a musical game of memory, except if you forget a block live a few hundred youngsters will boo you.

Such a neat toy and he uses it for f*cking dubstep.

While I'm not a fan of dubstep, I recognize that this does take skill and musical talent to use. I'm pretty positive you could tell the difference between this and someone just mashing keys.

>> ^Fantomas:

Such a neat toy and he uses it for f cking dubstep.


I really don't understand the hate for dubstep, IMO it is a music type that has great bass response but at a speed you can enjoy it at. Every other type of techno and even bass and drum is just to damn fast and high pitched.

if the video was upside down we'd get a 1st person POV

>> ^doogle:

if the video was upside down we'd get a 1st person POV
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Fantomas, ShakeyMcBones and jmd.

This is NOT DUBSTEP. This electro, im not meaning to be a music snob or anything but when people blanket any thing with a wobble noise in it as dubstep, it continues to lead people astray from what is an awesome genre.

Pls youtube Kode 9, Mala, Breakage, Seven, Kryptic Minds, Youngsta for some actual dubstep.

>> ^raverman:

"It's like playing a musical instrument, except if you get the chords wrong the crowd will think less of your skills as a musician.">> ^PancakeMaster:
It's like a musical game of memory, except if you forget a block live a few hundred youngsters will boo you.



There are no chords to get wrong. The chord is programmed into one button.

This is an 8 x 8 grid of binary switches. Pressing a button activates a sample.

Compare to a piano with 88 keys, each key has variable volume depending on how hard you press it. Plus three pedals (soft, sustain, and sostenuto). You actually have to play the melody and accompanying chords.

I wouldn't call him a musician. Just like I don't call DJs musicians.

I stand corrected!

>> ^Gilsun:

Fantomas, ShakeyMcBones and jmd.
This is NOT DUBSTEP. This electro, im not meaning to be a music snob or anything but when people blanket any thing with a wobble noise in it as dubstep, it continues to lead people astray from what is an awesome genre.
Pls youtube Kode 9, Mala, Breakage, Seven, Kryptic Minds, Youngsta for some actual dubstep.

>> ^harlequinn:

>> ^raverman:
"It's like playing a musical instrument, except if you get the chords wrong the crowd will think less of your skills as a musician.">> ^PancakeMaster:
It's like a musical game of memory, except if you forget a block live a few hundred youngsters will boo you.


There are no chords to get wrong. The chord is programmed into one button.
This is an 8 x 8 grid of binary switches. Pressing a button activates a sample.
Compare to a piano with 88 keys, each key has variable volume depending on how hard you press it. Plus three pedals (soft, sustain, and sostenuto). You actually have to play the melody and accompanying chords.
I wouldn't call him a musician. Just like I don't call DJs musicians.


If he had made this soundtrack without using the launchpad, using DAW software and various plugins and samples, that somehow is more "musician"y than using a 64 key launchpad with samples that he probably prepared himself, even though the end result is the same? Maybe composers aren't musicians? Or are you saying this isn't music?

And, you must not think a person playing a small organ is a musician, since it has fewer keys than a piano, and each key is a binary switch that turns on and off the sound of the pipe.

>> ^Gilsun:

Fantomas, ShakeyMcBones and jmd.
This is NOT DUBSTEP. This electro, im not meaning to be a music snob or anything but when people blanket any thing with a wobble noise in it as dubstep, it continues to lead people astray from what is an awesome genre.
Pls youtube Kode 9, Mala, Breakage, Seven, Kryptic Minds, Youngsta for some actual dubstep.


Ok you guys have officially come up with too many damn names for types of electronic styles of music. -_-

I considered it dubstep because its pretty much a mashup of dubstep songs. If that makes it electro then so be it. Still sounds good.

@WaterDweller, @harlequinn The point surely is that this is a valid musical instrument - it just isn't new or even that clever. It's a just a in a reformed to fit in a DJ booth. The act of playing it isn't that different from piano and less technically skillful than say learning the Flute.

Show me someone creating dub step live from samples created by a digitally processed string instrument and i really will be impressed.

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He'd be a composer if it was made in software prior to performance. Not a very good composer but a composer nonetheless. I'll give way and admit that since it is music then he is some form of musician. Not a skilled one but still a musician.

Composers are not performance musicians. They are still "musicians" in the sense that they manipulate music, but they do it vicariously. Most composers play one or two instruments but the instruments are not required to compose the music - it goes straight from head to paper.

Is this music? Yes and no. It's nice enough, but it's several orders of magnitude away from say Debussy or Chopin or Bach.

Your organ analogy is flawed (interestingly enough I lived above a full pipe organ for two years - true story). Firstly most modern organs have two keyboards and one pedal board with more keys in total than a piano. They also have a large range of stops that control more notes. Secondly each key activates one note - the same as a piano. It just has no attenuation. So the exact same rules apply except loudness is controlled by a different method.

If he had a 10x10 keypad with each pad assigned exactly one note a semitone apart from the next pad and he played a piece on it then it would be showing a similar level of skill.

Well yes it's a valid musical instrument. So is the kazoo.

The act of playing it is very different from playing piano and is much less technically skilful than learning to play the flute. I play clarinet, saxophone, flute and piano. They each have a different level of difficulty. Piano is the easiest, and clarinet is the hardest. The very hardest instruments to learn are the double reeds - oboe, cor anglais, and bassoon. The very easiest are the percussion family - drums, piano, all other keyboards.

I guess this is why I'm so opinionated about this...