14 DAY TRIAL // I won't say it's a bad thing because I am not even by far sure that such an assertion has a trace of veracity, but damn, I could not notice that the vast majority of the loops and groove packs being released by such manufacturers are drums. Drums seem to be the uncrowned rulers of the loop world and I guess there is at least one set being released each day.
As I was browsing some piece of recently received news I saw not one but two drum packs whose release was advertised. Two different producers and two different packs of loops; yet the content wasn't by far that necessary and that different compared to the rest of the drum loops packs released during the last 1,500 years.
I mean, OK, there are people who are looking for all sorts of drums, which are rather hard to be recorded in real life so they could be used in music-making. For example, let's take the Military Snare Grooves 1 from Smart Loops: where the heck could you go and record in a proper manner a military snare drum? This is one useful piece of sound especially as you can download it and then use it according to your own vision.
But the rest: all sorts of loops made especially for the lazy and unimaginative music makers? Why should anyone claiming he/she's a musician be in such a dire need for sounds of grooves? I mean, saying "musician" is somehow equivalent to saying "you're creative". Permanently needing other people to create rhythms for you isn't exactly my idea of creativity...
I guess this is why home-made music sounds more and more the same, no matter if we're speaking about a song from Beyonce or coming from the computer of a DJ/music writer wannabe kid... It's all made from pieces put together in a more or less inspired way, but the basics are exactly the same.
Besides the separation made by the natural selection principle of "who assembles the loops in a more pleasant way", the Beyonce music benefits from a good-looking chick who can act and play and the rest of the males are dreaming of her with their hands in their underwear. No one will look at the skinny teenager full of zits who makes about the same music...
I just wonder: until when will tens and hundreds of GBs of drum samples, loops and grooves still be a thing to sell? How much can the public absorb? Will music ever come back to working your a** out and become really skilled while also exercising your talent or will it become more and more open to every tone-deaf guy with a PC...?