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People could say using a non-piano to play acoustic piano parts is cheating. Worse, using a "string" sound from a keyboard is cheating since you're not playing a violin, nor are you an actual orchestra. This is simply one more tool. And guess what? This is nothing compared to what is coming. They will easily in our lifetimes (i.e. 20 years maybe less) have technology that will allow you to "think" your music into an interface and have it come back as finished tracks. I have seen early demos of pieces of technology that will be combined with others to make this reality. Won't that be awesome? Original classical composers for the most part composed much the same way.. in their heads, then wrote it out longhand via sheet music for each instrument. Then we had affordable symphonies and bands who could just play it out as it was being imagined. Then you had the synth revolution which allowed 1 person to play ALL the parts, one or more at a time in layers to fill out a complete performance of what was in their head. So why not just go right from your head to finished music, EXACTLY as you hear it in your head? I think it is very exciting. Down the road, perhaps beyond our lifetimes, they will be able to do this with thoughts and films, imagine memories duplicated as people recall them captured this way. Imagine its use in justice cases where we could SEE what someone saw to prove innocence or guilt.

Sure, there's a sci-fi element to all this, but trust me, imagine what Mozart could have done with these tools and imagine all the future Mozarts doing it, it will be a great thing for human expression!