Like C++, this cannot be parsed with a context-free grammar. The "present future" refers to
No crashes what so ever and also no distractions by updates or "phone home applications"
which is something I would guess most people would indeed see as shameful regarding our present future in software, but OTOH, this is HN, so who knows.
My old synths crashed, and required physical maintenance. In addition I lost songs that failed to read off of the crude tape backup that my Quantitizer/sequencer used.
I am much happier with my setup that I could have never have afforded outside the current future than my much lessor previous setup. This being HN I'm sure that are people that can afford to spend much more than me for gear so they might prioritize the 'minor differences' to them you list over no access at all, but I much prefer having access and price points I can actually afford.
Good for you! I also sold all my external gear many years ago and never looked back. And this is all very interesting, but has nothing to do with the topic at hand: where is he shaming people for using VSTs instead of external gear, or saying people are cheapskates for using VSTs, or that his music is better? Because he still doesn't. He says USB MIDI has tons of jitter and modern music software phones home and crashes a lot, and Cubase on his Atari does neither, which from my memory is totally true.
I have had zero issues because of jitter with my Novation SL MkII so I consider it a non-issue, and I think the tons of hits made using USB MIDI controllers speak to that. or the tons of artists that perform using Ableton. Or the tons of live artists that perform using Gig performer. Going between a piano, piano action, synth action, and un-weighted keyboards has much more impact on playing. Do we shame the old past for having different pricing options/cheapening out on keybeds?
There is so much music software that doesn't phone home it's a ridiculous focus. iLok is the biggest phone home and you can buy a USB stick to stop that so? I don't get the point?
" No crashes what so ever and also no distractions by updates or "phone home applications". It just works, distractless! Shame on the "present future".
Still doesn't make sense to me and is needlessly shaming/negative. My setup just works and is way more distract less than past hardware setup, especially if you are talking about recalling projects. I lost WAY more projects/work previously than I do now, and when things failed in the past you were hit until you could perform a hardware fix (if you could afford the cost of the fix). I'll take software.
No crashes what so ever and also no distractions by updates or "phone home applications"
which is something I would guess most people would indeed see as shameful regarding our present future in software, but OTOH, this is HN, so who knows.