My mother is 90 and knows nothing about music or recording or sound systems never owned a cd. Even records and record players where a big luxury in our house.
But she knows when she sees a piano player playing piano beautiful music she enjoys it. When she hears the organist at the roller rink or the restaurant she enjoys it. When she sees a small combo with an organ drums guitar whatever she enjoys it.

When she sees one guy with one keyboard that sounds like a whole band with drums and horns and strings an guitars and bass and etc. Singing in harmony with 3 voices and it's just him on the stage, She doesn't know the technology but she knows he's not playing all that.
She knows he's using something to enhance his performance whether it is tape or a midi or style, that she doesn't know, she just knows one man is not doing it all.
Now the entertainer gets up and walks around the room singing while the keyboard is playing itself....
She's lived through the depression and 90 years of supporting herself and her family and still lives in her own home alone so who is ignorant?

All that music IS in the keyboard we just trigger the changes and arrange it in real time but we're not playing the drums and bass and horn lines. Maybe one line but not all of them.
I'm not trying to start anything here there is a talent to it and performing and singing take a talent all it's own. But let's not try and take too much of the credit for the machine.

[This message has been edited by mikeathome1 (edited 04-15-2008).]