You never even listen to a song and want to play along with it? Or do you not even listen to much music anymore?

I’ve never had much commercial success with music, and it’s probably more brutal now than it’s ever been, but I still love writing, recording, and jamming out with my favorite songs, so it’s hard to relate. I’ve known people who gave up on the dream of “making it”, but I’ve never known someone to stop playing music altogether.

Well, when it comes to MPE devices (Seaboard, Linnstrument, Osmose, etc.) the MIDI spec is being… stretched.

The fact that this clown even felt the need to talk about this shows that a noteworthy number of people are leaving the platform.

It’s a slow burn, but legacy social media must die.

Electronic music is a different artform, but it’s still fun and satisfying for the people who make it. Plus, I’d argue that most people who make electronic music do it because they like that type of music, not because they don’t want to learn the violin or whatever.

I don’t have a Seaboard, but FWIW it shows up as a valid controller in the menu for Bitwig Studio under Linux, so it might not be hard to set up at all. Bitwig also has great MPE support, and if my Linnstrument is anything to go off of, you’ll have a ton of run with MPE on the Seaboard. :)

Or the $600 guitar, $600 baritone guitar and $600 fretless bass I just bought. 🥴

This is the kind of thing you say when you never learned how to play Blitzkreig Bop.