[geoff]

On 10/12/2014 12:50 a.m., Mike Rivers wrote:
On 12/8/2014 12:17 PM, Tom Evans wrote:
Are there any wealthy, successful music stars who became successful and
rich using cheesy stuff like a Roland drum machine and a Casio
keyboard? If so, they're a tiny fraction of today's music stars.

And today's stars are a fraction of yesterday's stars, when you compare
the number of players available to become stars if they're made into
stars. While not necessarily becoming sustained stars for a lifetime
career, there have been profitable hits recorded with cheap equipment.
It's more about marketing than anything else. Do you have a market for
your music? Do you think that better samples will get you a market?

The biggest paying two markets for programmed music today are music for
TV and programming for recording stars. But the music that you hear on
TV is composed for a specific purpose, not just something that a wannabe
composer dreamed up. And they don't use cheap drum machines and
keyboards, because they know that their customers are only using them
because they can't afford to hire a real orchestra, but expect the sound
of one.

Not much from Tom today. Must have a detention ....

geoff