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... _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
