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Cognitive dissonance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A quick excerpt from the page so you can understand the pattern without reading the whole thing:
"The Fox and the Grapes"
A classic illustration of cognitive dissonance is expressed in the fable "The Fox and the Grapes" by Aesop (ca. 620–564 BCE). In the story, a fox sees some high-hanging grapes and wishes to eat them. When the fox is unable to think of a way to reach them, he decides that the grapes are probably not worth eating, with the justification the grapes probably are not ripe or that they are sour (hence the common phrase "sour grapes"). This example follows a pattern: one desires something, finds it unattainable, and reduces one's dissonance by criticizing it. Jon Elster calls this pattern "adaptive preference formation".[19]
Macbeat uses a Mac (who woulda guessed?) and has an incentive to convince himself not to like FL Studio -- there's no native Mac version of FL Studio. Just a crossover-wrapper.
When you click his profile and click the "View Posts..." button, you'll see that just about 60-70% of his posts are bashing FL Studio. Another 20% aren't directly related to music (Trayvon Martin thread, etc.). Maybe around 10% are other music-related posts. He attempts to steer every thread off-topic, replying to "How Do I Do 'Procedure X' in FL Studio" with witty replies along the lines of "Uninstall FL Studio" or "Graduate from Preschool".
I imagine he's going to disagree and say something about "pseudo-intellectualism", maybe he'll attack the credibility of Wikipedia, or maybe he'll attack my credibility as a producer.
Check the link in my signature -- you can hear some of my beats, along with some examples of mixing and/or mastering I've worked on for other artists. Where's your music, macbeat? What's so credible about your perspective?
Yeah, Cubase has been around longer than any of the other DAWs - Even longer than Pro Tools by about a year or two! I actually used Cubase for a few years myself before switching to REAPER. My biggest complaint with Cubase is actually a problem I have with FL as well: It simply crashes too much (especially if you bridge 32-bit plugins)! The last version of Cubase I used was 6, so if 7 is more stable, I don't know anything about it.
-Ki
Salem Beats