<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Player pianos are now very sophisticated and have been used since nearly 100 years ago. Check out Nancarrow, a classical composer who wrote exclusively for it, some of it way beyond human capability. <br>
<br>Trouble is, you get no nuances at all, no interpretation, the exact same thing every time. Surely programmers can work on that. bill<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Dave Sill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sparge@gmail.com" target="_blank">sparge@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Exactly, there's no need for guitar-playing robots with MIDI and Pro Tools. No doubt this tech has allowed composers to realize their music without the hurdle of mastering an instrument.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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-Dave<br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Adrian Tymes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com" target="_blank">atymes@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 7:55 AM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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What if all you need to do is write the music, then a robot can play it?<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Let me twist that for you. Google "autocomposer". I have received quite a few compliments over the years on music I've created using such, which IIRC have never been played on anything that is not a computer (including smartphones, et cetera). <br>
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