[Dean]

I did not read the entire thread, only the post originally referenced on PA.

He clearly thinks these controllers and gaming systems would be good for creating music and that there will be some broad demand for the output.

I wrote about this a while ago when talking about the remix mode of Frequency, another Harmonix game, and how it made the PS2 controller a kind of instrument. That idea fascinated me.

These guitars are only toys because they are limited, at this particular moment, to playing other people's songs. This is a software problem, and not representative of some lasting defect with the device.

When Harmonix delivers a composition suite with the next Rock Band (or the next), and people start creating and uploading their own albums...

He goes on to claim.

Between the five keys, combinations of those keys, and the "hammer on, pull off" mechanic, you're talking about a ri-goddamn-diculous number of states.

Compared to just about any real instrument, this is a ridiculously small number of states as I have previously enumerated. I am not going to post the quote where he claims instrument aren't engineered again.

To make a Tuba sound, you haven't needed a tuba for ages... The game controller hasn't changed the way people think about instrument shapes, the synthesizer did in 1876, or 1970 (depending on your definitions) and sequencers and MIDI controllers and the modern computer have taken it well beyond!!! Hell, pipe organs make some amazing sounds not limited by the piano shaped keyboard they use. The guy is just ignorant to think that his generation is magically going to free us from the confines of "crass physical laws". It's already been done centuries ago.

And to end with he thinks he is bloody George Washinton or one of the George Bushs with his closing

We're witnessing the democratization of music.

He clearly has never heard of the '60s.... I don't care how sarcastic this site is in general, I can only judge the post I read and he clearly knows not of what he speaks.