KVR Audio

LeVzi · Post by **LeVzi** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 12:42 am

I bet Norman Cook is using CDJ's when he plays out, or even Scratch or Traktor, I doubt he's demanding 1210's everywhere he goes. Just gotta move with the times.

musikmachine · Post by **musikmachine** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 1:14 am

abstractcats wrote:
ariston wrote:It's funny... reading this has made me realize that it's never musical instruments that inspire me. I get inspired by people, occurrences, little things in daily life, nature. The instrument is just a tool to get the music that's in my head out there.
Perfectly said! Many people, cant tell software from hardware, I believe, unless they know about the two in more depth than just the casual listening. For me, a C is a C no matter if it is delivered on a violin or a MIDI controller playing a Violin sample. Creative sound is what I'm after, if its Vivaldi or Tangerine Dream or DeadMau5.

I get inspired by posts like these.

Embrace the technology, we've never had it so good.

dusted william · Post by **dusted william** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 2:09 am

hehe,

I had a beats international cassette tape... showing my age.

dw

awol9000 · Post by **awol9000** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 4:36 am

haha, I had the 12"

dalor · Post by **dalor** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 5:04 am

Is KVR the new hang out for retired Grampa's??

I taped it from the radio..

omissis · Post by **omissis** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 6:23 am

Norman Cook wrote:The only scary thing about it all is that technology could actually do the job without me being there

Wasn't that the Kraftwerks' dream came true?

dalor · Post by **dalor** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 6:38 am

omissis wrote:
Norman Cook wrote:The only scary thing about it all is that technology could actually do the job without me being there
Wasn't that the Kraftwerks' dream came true?

Know the rules so you know exactly how to break em. There goes technology, it can't adapt. Artificial Intelligence may be good enough for commercial western tracks but hardly to create innovative music and never be a step ahead.

darsho · Post by **darsho** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 6:50 am

Very strange article regarding his use of ABleton vs. Atari.
He doesn't want to use Ableton, but his managment is forcing him to do it ?
Weird.

Yet I can understand his love for hardware and not being inspired by software.
I am mostly inspired by sounds themselves, but also even more by synths that are totally hands on nowadays. Has been a while that I touched a soft synth.
Just could not bring myself to look at the computer screen when making music anymore.
But for years I was happy with software, but pretty suddenly that had changed and I wanted to produce out of the box again. It's different for everyone, I guess.

jupiter8 · Post by **jupiter8** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 6:55 am

Mutant wrote:
dalor wrote:He is a creative producer who will use anything as seen fit.
But only if that "anything" is not digital...

Yeah exactly, like the Atari 1040/Akai S950 combo......Oh wait..

dalor · Post by **dalor** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 7:01 am

jupiter8 wrote:
Mutant wrote:
dalor wrote:He is a creative producer who will use anything as seen fit.
But only if that "anything" is not digital...
Yeah exactly, like the Atari 1040/Akai S950 combo......Oh wait..

Exactly! Ahead of our times where everyone is looking for '8-bit retro stuff'

pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 8:07 am

dalor wrote:DIVA raised the bar in the VST world this year (2012!) when the same could have been achieved with hardware since 1966.

In 1966 very few of us could have afforded to cause it was quite expensive.

dalor · Post by **dalor** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 8:21 am

pdxindy wrote:
dalor wrote:DIVA raised the bar in the VST world this year (2012!) when the same could have been achieved with hardware since 1966.
In 1966 very few of us could have afforded to cause it was quite expensive.

I never said it was cheap. I just said it was possible. People think that all this new technology is creating a better sound, yet we use Technology to reproduce the sound from yesterday.

Acid Mitch · Post by **Acid Mitch** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 8:23 am

LeVzi wrote:I bet Norman Cook is using CDJ's when he plays out, or even Scratch or Traktor, I doubt he's demanding 1210's everywhere he goes. Just gotta move with the times.

I'm guessing you missed the part of the interview where he talks about using Serato.

pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 9:00 am

dalor wrote:
pdxindy wrote:
dalor wrote:DIVA raised the bar in the VST world this year (2012!) when the same could have been achieved with hardware since 1966.
In 1966 very few of us could have afforded to cause it was quite expensive.
I never said it was cheap. I just said it was possible. People think that all this new technology is creating a better sound, yet we use Technology to reproduce the sound from yesterday.

It is a better sound for most of us... Some might argue that the best analog recording equipment sounds better than the digital counterparts... but I would never have ever been recording on the very best analog equipment... I would have been recording on a 4-track cassette recorder and the quality I can achieve with inexpensive digital recording today far exceeds it.

In the practical sense, for what most of us can afford today, we have never had it so good.

Loki Fuego · Post by **Loki Fuego** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 9:24 am

Even though I read the interview, I don't really care what he has to say about software vs. hardware. I've got my own opinion on that.

Fatboy Slim thoughts about software synths