Music, it is said, can soothe the savage beast, speak as a universal language, and act as the great stress relieving stimulant.
But beyond all these noble aspirations, is it’s great ability to generate truckloads of money. This is it’s very interesting side and Nigerian music artistes particularly have found short cuts to this pot of wealth by creating amazing music beats that have thrust right into our hearts.
In the past, recording a song in any Nigerian studio could have been a financial suicide. It was such a tall dream that perhaps bank loans would have been required.
But the years have gone by, and thanks to a blinding pace in technological software growth, the almost impossible is now the very possible. Sound engineers and software developers have developed music beats creating software tools that have removed the modern artiste from a state of financial dilemma. It is a technology that stretches to endless limits.
Artiste now no longer have to pay through their noses to have music instruments played to accompany their songs. Now DJ jockeys only need to have one of the many hundreds of music sounds creation tools in their audio consoles to generate beats.
The potentials of this software has been amazing as it has been discovered to be able to manipulate even voice tones and textures. It has also been said to be able to generate artificial human voice patterns which has been used most interestingly in background tone, harmony and chorus.
It is the ultimate messiah for the upcoming and budding artiste who would have otherwise had a shattered dream should he have had to come pay musicians and instrumentalists to generate these percussions live.
The software is now so popular that many of these artistes have it downloaded on their personal systems and experiment with the beats right from the comforts of the living rooms.
Like every new technology, initial results had not given the satisfying result as the tones had come off as polyphonic to the ear and very unnatural. But work on it never ceased until developers had whipped up the perfect finish.
However, this technology has stirred up disapproving comments from music critics and live performance musicians who argue that these shot cuts to creating music greatly undermines the very essence and soul of music generation.
They insist that music must entail physical performance and should not be left to computer software which lacks the heart and feeling to generate music. They had also argued that the software was a lazy way out of an activity of intense imaginative power to literally create the ‘food for the soul’.
These criticisms however have sailed past, without slowing the pace of the growing popularity of this software. It’s the raving trend now and nothing may be able to stop it.
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