Watched almost 2 minutes.
Must say I agree.
Little Richard and Bill Haley made music from their innards (medical term). No computer can do that.

I watched about the first half of this...IOW most of the discussion of quantization. What I don't get is...why? If the band is good enough, what's the point of making it sound metronomic?

Most musicians are taught NOT to sound metronomic.

Unless they need it to be metronomic in order to overlay other parts from later sessions, I don't see it.

Now, the AutoTune is just disgusting on its face. I suppose it makes music more "democratic" in that you don't need to have a good voice quality or ability to sing on pitch. Anybody can be a star!

I suppose hip-hop is democratic for some of the same reasons, but I haven't paid enough attention to it to appreciate its nuances.

Heh, like this guy rants about "quantization" ruining Rock music, JS Bach's contemporaries probably ranted about "equal temperament" ruined whatever the heck that predated Baroque.

This dude in 2019: "music actually happens in between the grid lines"

Some other dude in the 18th century: "music actually happens in between the 12 equal temperament"

Conceptually, I like grid lines, I like the interchangeable mix-and-match modularity enabled by grid lines. Just like equal temperament gives you grid lines for pitch, quantization gives you grid lines for tempo.

You want more variabilities away from the grid lines? It's just a matter of time before more technology, more software, and more AI modeling will give you great sounding, artfully nuanced variabilities away from the grid lines.

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Originally posted by Axtremus:
You want more variabilities away from the grid lines? It's just a matter of time before more technology, more software, and more AI modeling will give you great sounding, artfully nuanced variabilities away from the grid lines.

I'm sure you are right.