VO = Consumerism and digital slavery?

[Samulis]

(05-04-2020, 08:57 PM)Mattias Westlund Wrote: I joined a Facebook group called Virtual Orchestration some year ago. And it's f'n depressing. Never have I seen so many people arrogantly touting tools over skill, except for maybe those PC Master Race type "gamers" who spend all their money buying only the best hardware only to run benchmarks and bask in the glory of their super-high framerates. While not actually playing and getting into (and good at) any games.

If it weren't for the fact that useful things are occasionally posted there, I would leave the group. It's kind of sad that an enthusiast community like that actually makes me loose enthusiasm for the genre, but that's VO snobbery for ya I guess.

That kind of thing sickens me, especially when it consists of putting down new members for enjoying freeware or cheap libraries, just like when PCMR folks put down people who use older or cheaper hardware for not having RTX or whatever the latest thing is. 

e.g. You can happily and very capably make relatively complex music on even a Core i3 or a Ryzen 3 now; even my 7-year old i7-3770 had no flaw with its ability to use even the latest VI's. When you realize the minimum spec for Kontakt is a Core 2 Duo (which came out what, 10-15 years ago?), and that home computers were fully capable of multi-track audio recording in the mid 1990's, it is silly every time I see someone touting the only reasonable computer for VI must have 16 cores and 128 GB of RAM or something like that, and yet I see posts like that on many boards and groups dedicated to this field.

Honestly-
(1) I miss the 'simpler' days of slashing my way through scores with "easy" libraries like EWQL SO. I realize now music is much less fun to create than it used to be, even if my work sounds better. 
(2) Sometimes I just want to not even bother with VI's; I've had a lot of fun creating scores using live instruments only, e.g. through free improvisation.