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They said (and say) the same thing about DJs who use automatic beat-matching and mp3s. Fascinatingly Berlin still clings onto vinyl (for now). It's fair to point out that the current users of the tools aren't seasoned/world-class producers/DJs, and don't have that level of training and practice or their musical ear though.

It's amazing that these tools exist, along with those that can operate them, so music can be generated via code, live, and it comes down to (your opinion on) whether or not these tools ever grow past the "research" phase that they're currently in right now. IMO the tools will continue to evolve until they are useful in the hands of "creative originators [that] can use grammars expressively".

There's a impassioned community building and refining the tools and tooling, and its my belief and opinion - we don't have to all agree - that the algorave tools will eventually get to a place that's useful for creatives, and into their hands. Then the music being generated becomes the attraction, instead of the coding tool being a gimmick of an attraction.

After all, what's a drum machine, but a clumsy, analog "for" loop?