Re: [LAD] automation on Linux (modular approach)

From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@email-addr-hidden-dsl.net>
Date: Mon Mar 22 2010 - 14:44:43 EET

Louigi Verona wrote:
> alex stone wrote:
> "The weight of alternate responses seems to be geared toward a precise
> definition of the use of automation, for a particular use case, which
> is outside of the worklfow of some."
>
> Yes, indeed. I, for instance, is an electronic musician. I do not
> record stuff,
> I do not have takes. For me automation is close to 60-70% of the work,
> because
> my tunes are tunes of sound manipulation. Most electronic music is not
> note based
> music, that is, its beauty lies not in the notes it plays, but in the
> way sound is manipulated,
> arrangement is built. For me automation is as important as an ability
> to have a master sync.
> And automation is being put on a lot of things - on a lot of
> parameters of synthesizers,
> on volume, panning, gating and God knows how many things.
>
> And at the same time my music is not "experimental" music like they do
> with CSound.
> It is ambient, dub, it is usually pretty sweet to the ears (that is,
> no harsh, non-melodic sounds)
> and to a person who is not familiar with the process of creation of
> such a music it may be
> of a surprise that doing such music takes so much delicate tweaking.
>
> Louigi.

But among other kinds of music I'm doing this kind of music too and
because of having just two audio IOs for my Envy24 based sound card I
can't use my analogue mixing console, what IMO would be the best way to
mix this kind of music. And just as one example, for this kind of music
I do use synth sounds that do change the volume the way I need it, I
seldom do it by a mixer.

IMO especially for music similar to this, we do need better sync.
Automation for Linux is on the rise.

I've to admit, that I started as a classical pop, punk, rock, jazz
musician and audio engineer, so perhaps I even would mix an audio
collage in a different way. Please listen to orchestral atonal twelve
tone music, e.g. to my favourite Arnold Schoenberg. It's unworldly to do
heavy mixing. Perhaps you like Fred Frith & Otomo Yoshihide
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9aOWSemwcs&feature=related, if you like
to do something similar with MIDI synth you need to do heavy MIDI event
editing, but still less mixing. I know some kinds of music, were people
from the MIT were using data gloves to mix music, IMO this are
exceptional cases, needed by a handful of users.

Ralf
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