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the total intergration bit is peripheral as far as im concerned (Its great to have it.....but lets face it....we didnt have this back in the 70's or 80's and music was still made using synths).
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you are right, but the convenience of this integration i feel is so fundamentally important to writing a good song. the best songs i write are the ones where im in the zone - where i just bosh it up in an hour and capitalise on this momentum. the more natural it feels, the quicker you can get an idea into a track and thats priceless as far as im concerned. too often i let a an idea fade or i start well but lose momentum, get hung up on something that takes too long for me to get it the way i sound it. all the time and frustration you save here can be plowed into improving some other aspect of your work. sure lab4 made do without this feature. but dance music has changed and evolved alot since they put out evilution and its only been 2 years! i wouldnt pass up any feature if it makes writing music just that little bit less frustrating.
way back when DJs beatmatched songs on turntables using their ears and the pitch control. so when cd decks came out alot of people dismissed some of the features that came with them. automatic key matching, midi syncing etc.
those features dont just save the effort of having to beatmatch a song - they allow the DJ to focus on something else. a DJ is an entertainer - thats why i see some psy DJs now moving into beatmixing video in with their songs - all the time they save on stage with key locking can be better spent elsewhere, doing something else. priceless feature.