Science & Tech Quote by Miroslav Vitous

That blunt little word - “crap” - does more work than a paragraph of tech-speak ever could. Miroslav Vitous is talking about early digital promise colliding with the cheap reality of mass-market sound libraries: the era when you could suddenly slice, copy, and rearrange music inside a computer, but the raw sonic ingredients were plasticky, generic, and tuned for convenience rather than character. It’s the musician’s version of being handed a powerful kitchen and only canned food.

The intent isn’t to dunk on technology. It’s to draw a line between editing as a breakthrough and sound as the actual soul of the thing. Vitous, a bassist and composer with deep roots in jazz and orchestral thinking, comes from a tradition where timbre is meaning: the grain of a bow, the air around a note, the human micro-errors that make a performance feel alive. Early “available on the market” samples flattened that into a one-size-fits-all gloss. His frustration is aesthetic, not nostalgic.

Subtext: democratization creates sameness. When everyone buys the same palette, everyone risks painting with the same colors. Vitous is implicitly defending craft against presets, originality against default settings. The line also hints at a familiar cycle in music tech: the tools advance faster than the culture of sound design. You can edit anything - but if the source material is dead, you’re just rearranging dead parts.