Everything we have talked about here will happen but in do course.
I have recently seen a robot made by Toyota connected wirelessly to a human. When the man had a thought about moving his foot the robot moved his foot. This was repeated but with various tasks like walking, jumping...the man was in a chair but the robot was doing what the man was thinking. It was amazing.
I know that everything I wrote about above will become available, its just a matter of time. For me they can't happen soon enough and the discussion about samples is only half the battle. Making the process of music dictation easier is what needs to happen. Right now the samples are better sounding than this process allows.
I see your point about how it will become easy and everyone will be doing it then, but music composition is unlike the other arts like dance, or painting, sculptor in the way that we (the audience) only care about the final product and not process whereas how a painting was painted or statue sculpted is part of those artistic disciplines. Its not really the composing we are making easier but the process of getting it from our brains to the world. We still need the musical training and understand orchestration, counterpoint, melody....
What I care about is how good my music is and how fast I can compose the next piece and I want to take away all the steps that are not required in the process, the natural organic process: think, compose, perform/record. And that process is simply dictation, once the musical idea hatches. Many of the steps we have to take right now to get the idea into the computer are completely useless to the creative process and in fact blocks creativity itself.
I look forward to the future where I can put on a helmut (instead of using a keyboard and mouse) and conceive music as I hear it in my head and it gets scored right into some software for me to hear it back immediately.
Don't get me wrong, I LOVE writing music on paper at the piano. If I had all the money in the world that is how I would compose. I would MUCH rather compose that way as opposed to wearing a helmut or using a mouse or keyboard, I would also much rather hand the finished piece of music to real musicians and rehearse them and conduct the piece myself and ditch the computer completely. But, since I am not wealthy I have to resort to this unnatural process with computers just to hear my ideas as they would sound with a real orchestra.
I am sorry to have hi-jacked this thread so maybe we can move these last few messages to a new thread and continue there if need be.
DM33