Matt Aimonetti's guest appearances

Matt Aimonetti

Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

NSBrief

Business and Philosophy

Hiten Shah

Pete Hunt

Seth Godin

Adam Stacoviak

Ryan Hoover

Erik Torenberg

Ben Horowitz

Bob Hoffman

Sarah Cooper

Vivek Saraswat

Ellen Chisa

Rob Walling

Ilya Sukhar

Leo Polovets

Geoff Ralston

OwlTail

Music collaboration has historically been accomplished by musicians gathering in bands. A band is usually an in-person, physical manifestation: a drummer, a guitarist, a piano player. Or, on a large scale, a symphony of classical instruments led by a conductor. Today, the most flexible instrument that anyone can play is arguably the computer, because a computer can simulate or replay any of the sounds made by any other instrument.  Another advantage of the computer is that it removes physicality as a constraint on the musician. A computer musician does not have to train their muscles to play piano, or guitar, or drums. The computer musician can imagine a sound and bring it to life inside a digital audio workstation (a program for composing and arranging music). The rise of the computer musician has coincided with a change in the way popular music is created. Instead of bands needing to work together to create a piece of music, a single producer can simulate all of the members of the band by programming piano, drums, and everything else. The rise of the solo producer has given birth to new kinds of music–but solo music production inherently limits the range of musical ideas that can be explored. The most important works of art have input from multiple people. And even the most successful solo producers love to work with other artists who have a complementary skill–such as vocals. For the last twenty years, the model of solo producer working with pop vocalist has largely dominated the charts. Musical collaboration has stuck to a model that mimics its pre-Internet form, with very small groups of 1-5 people making the core of a song. The main tools that people use to collaborate are email and Dropbox. Splice is a tool for music collaboration. Splice combines version control, revision history, social networking, sample discovery, synthesizer rental, and other features. Splice is changing the way that music is created, with a large percentage of top producers adopting it. The impact Splice has on music will be on par with what Github has done for software engineering. Matt Aimonetti is the CTO and co-founder of Splice, and he joins the show to talk about the founding story, the product development, and the engineering of Splice. The post Splice: Music Collaboration with Matt Aimonetti appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Music collaboration has historically been accomplished by musicians gathering in bands. A band is usually an in-person, physical manifestation: a drummer, a guitarist, a piano player. Or, on a large scale, a symphony of classical instruments led by a conductor. Today, the most flexible instrument that anyone can play is arguably the computer, because a computer can simulate or replay any of the sounds made by any other instrument. Another advantage of the computer is that it removes physicality as a constraint on the musician. A computer musician does not have to train their muscles to play piano, or guitar, or drums. The computer musician can imagine a sound and bring it to life inside a digital audio workstation (a program for composing and arranging music). The rise of the computer musician has coincided with a change in the way popular music is created. Instead of bands needing to work together to create a piece of music, a single producer can simulate all of the members of the band by programming piano, drums, and everything else. The rise of the solo producer has given birth to new kinds of music–but solo music production inherently limits the range of musical ideas that can be explored. The most important works of art have input from multiple people. And even the most successful solo producers love to work with other artists who have a complementary skill–such as vocals. For the last twenty years, the model of solo producer working with pop vocalist has largely dominated the charts. Musical collaboration has stuck to a model that mimics its pre-Internet form, with very small groups of 1-5 people making the core of a song. The main tools that people use to collaborate are email and Dropbox. Splice is a tool for music collaboration. Splice combines version control, revision history, social networking, sample discovery, synthesizer rental, and other features. Splice is changing the way that music is created, with a large percentage of top producers adopting it. The impact Splice has on music will be on par with what Github has done for software engineering. Matt Aimonetti is the CTO and co-founder of Splice, and he joins the show to talk about the founding story, the product development, and the engineering of Splice. The post <a href="https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2018/08/06/splice-music-collaboration-with-matt-aimonetti/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Splice: Music Collaboration with Matt Aimonetti</a> appeared first on <a href="https://softwareengineeringdaily.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Software Engineering Daily</a>.

Splice: Music Collaboration with Matt Aimonetti

Chad talks with Matt Aimonetti, co-founder of Splice, on remote worker strategies, fundraising, and his vision for the future of digital musical collaboration.  Splice Chromebox For Meetings #NoEstimates excercism.io Matt on Twitter Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

Chad talks with Matt Aimonetti, co-founder of Splice, on remote worker strategies, fundraising, and his vision for the future of digital musical collaboration. <ul> <li><a href="https://splice.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Splice</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.google.com/chrome/business/solutions/for-meetings.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chromebox For Meetings</a></li> <li><a href="http://neilkillick.com/2013/01/31/noestimates-part-1-doing-scrum-without-estimates/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">#NoEstimates</a></li> <li><a href="http://exercism.io/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">excercism.io</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/mattetti" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Matt on Twitter</a></li> </ul><a href="https://github.com/sponsors/thoughtbot" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots</a>

133: The DNA of Music (Matt Aimonetti)