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*!) -- + Brent A. Busby + "We've all heard that a million monkeys + UNIX Systems Admin + banging on a million typewriters will + University of Chicago + eventually reproduce the entire works of + Physical Sciences Div. + Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, + James Franck Institute + we know this is not true." -Robert Wilensky _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
