On Thursday, August 17, 2017 at 8:58:35 AM UTC-4, Mike Rivers wrote:
On 8/17/2017 8:11 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
I'd call that "not a DAW" because the whole idea of the DAW is that you
can work faster than realtime. Being able to load files into the computer
and edit on the screen totally changed the world in the eighties and nineties,
and totally changed the studio workflow.
I'm looking at the classical definition of "workstation" and not the
practical one. It's an Internet thing.
You forget Windows for Workstations? That was the past, but even today...
Windows 10 Pro for Workstations.
Jack
A workstation is an integration of things that make workflow easier or
possible. Time-saving is just a bonus. The PCM editors made it possible
to edit digital recordings while remaining digital. When I was recording
and mixing to PCM, I'd copy the digital recording to analog tape, cut
the tape to clean up starts and stops, combine pieces from alternate
takes, and put songs in sequence for the record. Then, after making a
safety copy (back to digital) I'd send the spliced tape off to be
mastered and pressed.
I never actually edited a project with the video editor system. The
first digital editing workstation I worked with was that Orban thing,
Audicy, I think was the name, of which Dick Pierce was a major designer.
The transfer from (and back to) PCM format was in real time, but the
editing process, once you got the hang of it (like with any modern DAW)
was faster than cutting and splicing tape. The Undo was the real time
saver - and a start down the road to spending too much time with
perfecting the project - making it easy to try edits that either didn't
work or didn't really improve things.
Just like a modern DAW.
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