Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Still I cannot understand why...
From: Paul Davis (pbd_AT_Op.Net)
Date: Fri Dec 14 2001 - 21:11:42 EET
>> > do you think you could do even just a 16 track edit and
>> > mixdown with snd[...]?
>>
>> yes. But isn't 16 tracks a sign that something else is wrong?
my studio/drumming friend (who has loads of experience with this
stuff) will sometimes use 12 tracks just to record a rythmn
track. this lets him play with the role of each drum in the piece in a
way that sticking a stereo mike above a drumset just doesn't permit.
>Possibly:
[ ... examples of 4 track studio mastery elided ... ]
the beatles could get away with 8 tracks, partly because their notion
of percussion (as in all the other examples you mention) was
incredibly simplistic. once you've gotten into the modern sense of
what percussion can be like, the way drums are handled on each of
those examples (if at all) seems totally inadequate.
>Who says you need ProTools?
its cheaper than drugs, though in the long run, it may screw up your
life more, particularly if you decide to try to reimplement it ;)
if you talk to or read modern studio masters, who all have a great
deal of respect for the examples you cited and the people involved in
them, they will tell you that although you can certainly work with a 4
track analog setup and make some incredible music, the new tools have
allowed different approaches and techniques to surface. these
techniques have very few equivalents in the analog world (or for that
matter, even in the MDM work).
that doesn't make them automatically better, but it does mean that if
you want to use them, you need something along the lines of protools
and similar programs. eno may think that DAWs are like bread machines,
and i hate bread machines, but he's wrong: bread machines don't allow
you to do anything that you can't do without a bread machine - they
simply do most of it for you. its very difficult for me to imagine how
you'd do the things you can do with a DAW without one. whether or not
you want to do those things is up to you, but some people like them,
find important creative expression through them, save time with them,
and so on.
--p
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