#MASTERWRITER 1.0 SOFTWARE#
In the trend towards software-based “desktop” composing, the functionality of compositional software seems as much a labor of imagination as songwriting itself.
The flow of software-based digital songwriting tools has turned from a trickle to a torrent in recent years, providing everything from mundane functionality, such as printing out sheet music, filing copyright forms and labeling CDs, to advanced muse stimulation in the form of cross-cultural rhyming dictionaries and algorithmically induced word combinations. Surrounded by MIDI-based sequencers driving keyboards and banks of samplers, drum machines that can randomly toss in an almost-human slight shift in tempo, and preset signal processing gear that has reduced the need to understand the principles of digital physics to the equivalent of punching a button on the latte machine, technology has taken the songwriter to the point where the realization of a composition is nearly concomitant with its imagination.ĭigital technology has not stopped there, however. A multi-track virtual recording studio is now within reach of any songwriter, both in terms of affordability and accessibility.
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