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What's the best digital music-recording program for a Macintoshcomputer user?
On 10/12/2017 10:32 PM, Trevor wrote:
I never denied the existence of the concept of "virtual multitrack." Good, so what exactly were you complaining about in my original comment? (that you have deleted) I understood what you were talking about. What I objected to was your use of the term "virtual multitrack" that you made up, as if it was something really important and significant. I object, in general, to terms that are made up and used for no good reason. If you didn't make up the term, can you provide a reference that legitimizes it, other than a post on the WWW? People were recording time code on analog tape and adding virtual tracks (as many as the available hardware would allow) by synchronizing MIDI sequencers to time code. Do you have a reference for anyone calling them "virtual tracks"? (other than yourself) Never heard it myself. This term has been around for so long I really can't remember when I first heard it. If the rec.music.makers.synth newsgroup archive goes back to the 1990s, you'll probably find it there. I can tell you that there was, maybe still is, a magazine named "Virtual Instruments" that was all about using computers to produce sounds used in musical compositions. That magazine came along after the concept of virtual tracks in a multitrack DAW were pretty well accepted - recording of tracks that yield the sounds of virtual instruments. No need to invent a name for it. Just as when tape decks were synchronised to give extra REAL tracks, NOT virtual. I agree with that except for the "Just as" part. Real audio sounds, and not sequences of commands that cause something else to produce synthesized sounds, are what are recorded on the slave deck. If there were analog tracks available, the synthesizers could be recorded on them for convenience. Otherwise, the synthesizer outputs went into more mixer channels - THOSE were the "virtual tracks." Not IMO, they were simply hardware synced instruments. And that, in a nutshell, is what a "virtual track" is. But I guess you just don't get it. You had to have been there. It was something to really get excited about, knowing that, given time, more processing power, and better hardware designs, the virtual sounds would get closer and closer to the sound of real instruments - or, alternatively, that sounds that aren't made by any organic musical instrument could actually be played and used in a musical composition. You need to read a good book about the history of electronic music, and no, I can't recommend one. As I said all along, "virtual tracks" have little to do with MIDI, Technically, that's true. The Grateful Dead had a DEC PDP-8 computer on stage that played sequences on a voltage-controlled synthesizer to go along with their performances. Though nobody thought to give it a name at the time, that was certainly a virtual track that added to their performance. And, I suppose, one could call the backing track that the lounge lizard uses to augment his one man band could be a virtual track as well. But nobody thought to put that name to it. you can now have hundreds of virtual tracks of purely acoustic recordings. We're getting kind of slippery here. You can have a virtual track playing recorded samples of an acoustic instrument. However, the instrument that was used to create the samples never played the part that comes out of the computer. Basically what we had to do in overdub with degraded sound quality every time a track was copied to add something on top (and then could no longer be edited separately) can now be done on a new track even if you only have a 2 channel interface. Uhhhhh . . . this is what MULTITRACK _RECORDING_ is all about. The exciting development was that you no longer had to mix a previously recorded part with a new part, record the mix, and throw away the original part. If you don't understand that, then there's no point to continuing this discussion. But, honestly, I've never heard anyone use the term "virtual multitrack" until you came along in this discussion. Amazing, but irrelevant. I would have thought the concept was obvious to anyone in the industry, but there you go. It's obvious in the sense that I understand what you meant when you wrote it, but it's also an unnecessary term. Would you say you were "chopsticking" when you were eating your kung pao chicken? No, you're just "eating." -- For a good time, call http://mikeriversaudio.wordpress.com |
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