Re: [LAU] Some thoughts on making electronic music

On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 14:36 -0500, Brent Busby wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Jostein Chr. Andersen wrote:
>
> > I was much more productive in the late seventies and in the eighties:
> > I used to record guitars and vocals and bounce the tracks between two
> > stereo compact cassette recorders. When I had a little more money, I
> > got a 909, FB-01 , a JX8P (wonderful synth) and a KORG SQD-1
> > sequencer, but still into a compact cassette recorder or two. Not much
> > of equipment and the record quality was poor - but it was more than
> > enough for making demos and doing stuff. A local radio station in
> > Oslo, where I lived at the time, was even playing 6-7 of my songs in a
> > program in '88 or '89; still recorded with SQD-1 and cassette
> > recorders. Even back then, the local radio stations did compress the
> > music so hard that everything sounded like shit, so my equipment was
> > sufficient for that too.
>
> I'm still catching up with old emails, so sorry about responding to a
> thread so late...but...this is so true!
>
> I also was more productive with sequencing and recording in the 80's.
> I worked with tape. It never sounded like what you put into it, but it
> also didn't sound bad when you did it right. I got way more done. To
> this day, I don't sequence on the computer, and I have lots of hardware
> synths, hardware drum machines, hardware rack effects, and I like to
> play keyboard, guitar, and drum parts with real keyboards, guitar, and
> drums. When I do program drum machine parts, it greatly carries over
> that I can actually play drums, and don't have to go begging on the
> Internet for a library of "loops" or something. I think that makes me
> some kind of fossil. :)
>
> But still the computer demands so much attention, and it gets it too,
> because it promises so much. Computers are really diabolical that way.
>
> > Today, I have everything (and much more) I dreamed of thanks to the
> > myriad of wonderful Linux audio apps and gizmos, but the productivity
> > is like shit. It's time to concentrate on #1 and #2 and just make
> > music.
>
> I remember when Ardour wasn't at v1.0 yet, there was a disclaimer on the
> web site that said something to the effect that it wasn't ready yet to
> be equivalent to much more than a stack of ADAT's. I was like, "Oh
> good! I really don't *want* my recording platform to do much more than
> a stack of ADAT's!" I don't expect my DAW to do much with effects, EQ,
> sequencing, sampling, or any of that. It's a recorder!
>
> And I still don't use most of Ardour's features...
>
> (Of course it's nice when your audio card *sounds* better than a stack
> of ADAT's. ADAT ADC's are so *cold*!)
>

Yeah.. I actually like the visual aspect in a DAW.. but I am also a
hardware sequencer and synth kind of person...

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Received on Thu Jun 18 16:15:02 2009