Louigi Verona wrote:
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> For a nice account on how things were done without computers
> see <http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1995_articles/oct95/queen.html>
> I've never done anything *that* complicated, but the techniques
> described in that article were common practice in those days,
> no engineer would panic or complain when having to use them.
>
> Ciao,
>
> --
> FA
>
>
>
>
> It is fun to read how things were done back then and it certainly
> influenced the type of music
> that was done, which is worth analyzing and thinking about, but I am not
> sure that is inspiring. I am myself now a bit interested in a hardware
> setup, I have two grooveboxes
> and plan to buy a mixer two get those two and a laptop together into
> one sound and I can imagine
> that making just one tune can be a difficult process.
> But romanticizing this process is the same as saying - "Remember when
> getting from Europe to India
> took months?"
>
> It is a different situation when you know that EVERYONE goes through
> this. It is an absolutely different
> story when you know for a fact that users of another operating system
> have good working solutions of the
> problem you are having. And so not having automation is a bit weird.
> As shown above, automation is
> essential in certain very widely spread types of electronic music when
> you need to turn many knobs at
> the same time to achieve the result. Asking 15 of your friends to help
> you do this during recording is
> a bit too much I think though it might make for a good record into the
> book of records.
It's not true that this kind of automation really is done by heavy
mixing. Yes, e.g. when I used my Atari ST and Cubase I had a Window with
MIDI SysEx controllers e.g. for my Oberheim Matrix-1000. A separated
MIDI port and that it was. This kind of automation is missing for Linux.
But I wish to have some examples off all that music that reportedly
makes a lot of usage of automation for the mixer. There isn't much of
that music. Doing this is unusual, it very often is done by
inexperienced musicians and hobby engineers because they guess it's the
way to do it like this, once they are more experienced they won't do it
by automation any more.
Ralf
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