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In article writes:

The question is, when did music start being about staring at a screen?

One could also ask when did music start being about recording at all?
But it's just another aspect of it, and if staring at a screen is the
way that one choses to record, then so be it. There are some forms of
rhythmic and sometimes melodic sound and poetic verse that are called
"music" today that didn't exist in Beethoven's time, and many of those
forms of music came to be because of the technology that support them.

I don't record that sort of music because I don't like it enough to
listen to it as much as I'd have to do in order to record it. That
doesn't mean it isn't music (to some) and that it can't be profitable
(one reason for its existence), but since I don't participate, I don't
have a good reason to apply the technology that's best applied to that
sort of music. When I try to apply it to the kind of music that I work
with, I find it to be cumbersome and time consuming, and just not very
enjoyable. I'd rather not switch than fight.

A console or a console-like control surface is pretty unobtrusive, despite
it's size, and allows you to focus on whatever you want, it doesn't hang in
your face, shining brightly. There is also real tactile feedback, and no
screen is big enough to show what a console does.

I wonder what the price point would have to be for a MMC control surface
with pretty much the same layout as a mackie 8 bus, or slightly smaller -
perhaps letting you switch between EQ view, aux, or effects, but allowing
control of 24 channels at a time and replacing the buss faders with a jog
wheel.

The SSL AWS900 is about $90K. I think the Digidesign ICON runs about
2/3 that, with the ProTools hardware. In fact, a Mackie dxb-200 with
minimal I/O should be under $10K (some people are essentially using
their dxb as a control surface). All less expensive than an API, but
more expensive than a Soundcraft Ghost. But if you're dreaming of $2K,
for that you get a fader and a knob per channel, and a handful of
buttons.

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