I suppose it might be cuz not all electronic producers play the instruments themselves...
I got damn good at guitar ever before producing, so it just makes sense to integrate the two as I already had the skill and ear for crafting great guitar & bass tones. I’d suppose that without that, it’d be a lot more difficult to work with studio musicians even if they wanted to.
It took me probably a good couple years experimenting and playing around bringing guitar into the digital realm to really refine the sound, even with that background. I’d think most producers making electronic have simply focused that same energy into learning and sound design on synths, thus that being the majority of the output. It’s taken quite a while to bring guitar into my works and get them sounding good. The first couple years were pretty horrible. Lol.
Then again, many might merely stick to electronic as that’s kinda been what’s “popular.”
I dunno. Just some theories. 🤷♂️
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In my group of friends and acquaintances, have quite a few electronic music producers. Most of them dont play any 'classical' instrument. Most of them can't even read music notes. They started producing when they were very young, from late 80s, 90s and some of them early 2000 time frames. Some uses samples of classical instruments in their tracks. Fortunately, most of the guys and girls I know who are producing, are not creating their tracks based on what is popular. They make what they want. Fortunately, some of them can do this and still make a good earning and still make a good earning, since they have a name in the industry and pretty nice fan base... But yeah, I also know those producers who create whatever is popular at that time. They not getting far, to be honest... More like 'one day flies'.
So I guess its the lack of exposure to the classical instruments for many electronic producers, not to include them in their work. For some maybe the time required to learn to mix 'old' and 'new', as you stated, it can take a lot of time to get it right.
Just keep on going! :)
This is a situation where I’ve contemplated how great it’d be to have more blockchain-based music collaboration platforms that enable the tracking of collaborative inputs and their corresponding licensing - similar to what Emanate has proposed (yet not implemented)...
Like, where I could put up some guitar stems I’ve done - making them available for collaborations, and the metadata tracked so their use in any tracks would automatically be monitored and calculated in the final product’s monetization...
I dunno if we’ll ever fully get to the realization of such a vision with this tech. And maybe it’s a bit of an idealistic fantasy for some of us producers who are extreme introverts, versus other producers who are already naturally networking more and arranging collaborations on their own. Though it’d be a cool application of this technology, were such platforms available to facilitate remixes and collaborations with the back-end to effectively manage the flow content and corresponding metadata...
Thats a great idea. Didnt know Emanate proposed such service. Somehow it seems to me not an easy service to create. One need to offer the samples for download I would think. To make sure the owner of the sample gets paid when the sample is used in some new piece of music, require music recognition tools... Shazam did improve a lot since it was born a long time ago, with much more fingerprints in their databases. I suppose a service like Shazam (the backend not the frontend with the user interface) needs to be used, with the samples to be added to the database as a fingerprint, for the service you talk about, to work.
Another way would be the create the tracks 100% online, using a different audio channel for each sample (original or altered by the producer) and connect that audio channel to the owner of the sample. Not even sure if something like that would ever possible. In todays world it would limit the usage to those having a good internet connection, which in itself is not the best way of implementation because its too selective.
it's definitely an 'idealistic' concept that would have a number of challenges in its implementation.
t'was pretty cool seeing Emanate propose it, years after I'd first "had" the idea. Although I'm actually not sure they'll ever actually get to it, as it doesn't appear to be on their actual roadmap yet.
shall be interesting to see if anything like this comes about, or remains a fantasy.
not sure if it's just a sense or whether had read about some platform using something like the Shazam idea in such a fashion. pretty interesting, the technologies emerging in this space...
I very much wonder what the life of a musician, artist, producer, performer will be when AI generated music further pushes it boundaries. That technology can be soooo distrupting to the music space.