"Mike Rivers" wrote in message
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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.

I remember being kind of excited to use a more visual approach, but after a
solid seven years of pursuing that, I really want to go back to using my
ears more than my eyes.

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 think cut and paste music is fine, I've spent a lot of time learning how
to piece things together. But at some point, after the editing is all done,
I want to do something that's more like playing an instrument, more physical
and visceral. I've never seen a good pianist that has to stare at the keys
the whole time he's playing, but screens are so demanding of attention, and
they now have to be there in the middle of everything.

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.

I think there is good and bad like anything. The big danger I think is just
making lifeless or ill-thought out music, because if little snippets are
made up and recorded then assembled, nothing gets internalized and spat back
out like you do when you compose or learn a song. That doesn't necessarily
happen, it's just a danger, and there have been some really high profile hit
records that were awful because of it.

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.

That's a house hereabouts.

But if you're dreaming of $2K,
for that you get a fader and a knob per channel, and a handful of
buttons.


A man can dream, can't he? I still say if Tascam put another four rows of
knobs on their surface and some LED meters, it would be a great and
relatively affordable product, but I think in order to sell as many as they
want to, and have the product make sense in a lineup with all their other
current products, they went for the lower price and lower capability.

jb