^^ what he said

I guess you could argue that it is a remix if the remixer wouldn't have come up with the same song if he wasn't working from a preexisting original.

PsyTox: It's sexist because you make broad generalizations based on a persons sex rather than their individual achievements. In fact, that's also a decent definition of the term 'sexism'.

And seriously, what's with all the "I like girls" comments?

good points about religion, but why focus on western music, what about music in tribal cultures past and present. interesting subject, i'm sure there must have been thousands of detailed studies on this, too deep a subject to generalise here i reckon. The problem with tribal cultures is that they r...

... and theres always been a much higher percentage of men making music since the beginning of time, so there must be a reason for that. I think the dominance of men in the history of western music... well, to make a long story short: excepting fragments of ancient greek notation, almost all preser...

I'm with Atheory on this one. Were different creatures put on the planet to do different things, i.e. hunt sht and fix sht (men), gossip and pick fruit (women)... Well that explains a lot. Here we have abandoned the hunter-gatherer society since, oh, about fifty thousand years and have now progresse...

Yup, I suggest you read up on feminist theory for some good answers :) The extremely short answer is that as far as society is concerned, its perfectly acceptable for guys to dck around with synths from an early age. Also, my theory is that a lot of girls stay away from production forums because the...

Define sound quality. If you're asking if they tweaked any of the >R4 modules then no, they almost never do that, for the sake of backwards compatibility.

As for the new sequencer, its a pain in th beginning, but once you get into it you'll never want to switch back.

If you're already convinced that the Machinedrum is "better", the why of it is a mere formality, ne c'est pas?