GRATITUDE - Don't bitch

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I used to have a similar setup that's in this video: Tascam TSR-8 through a mackie board. MPC for beats and whatever synths i could get my hands on from friends. It's been years aince and I have forgotten the headache involved with writing utilizing these tools. That is until I came across this video. No more complaining and bitching the next time the DAW pisses me off.
For those of you who have never written utiliIng outboard gear akin to what's demonstrated in the video, and complain about anything regarding your DAW, shut the f**k up. Watch the vid, then bow down to your DAW and lick it's feet. You have no grounds to complain.

[cryophonik]

I WISH I had owned an 8-track in 1985. I was slummin it with a 4-track Tascam PortaStudio….


…and I LIKED it!

[ghettosynth]

I WISH I had owned an 8-track in 1985. I was slummin it with a 4-track Tascam PortaStudio….


…and I LIKED it!

You had FOUR tracks? Pure luxury! I had two cassettes and I ping ponged every new layer.

[GaryG]

I WISH I had owned an 8-track in 1985. I was slummin it with a 4-track Tascam PortaStudio….

and having to remember stuff like how to get to ten tracks with only one bounce per element...

[foosnark]

I WISH I had owned an 8-track in 1985. I was slummin it with a 4-track Tascam PortaStudio….


…and I LIKED it!

You had FOUR tracks? Pure luxury! I had two cassettes and I ping ponged every new layer.

I had to draw waveforms in the dirt with a stick!

No wait. I had a PortaStudio too. A Yamaha QX-5 MIDI sequencer, which was so tedious to use that I just... didn't. An RX-17 drum machine, where 80% of the sounds were shit and the pads didn't have velocity but the sequencer was ironically slightly less of a drag to work with, even though you had to assign a note to each drum pad and separately sequence each of them. And my main synth was a Yamaha DX-100, which was pretty neat except no velocity and all the joys of FM synthesis on a 2-line LCD with a data slider and a couple of buttons for editing.

[Bombadil]

I WISH I had owned an 8-track in 1985. I was slummin it with a 4-track Tascam PortaStudio….


…and I LIKED it!

You had FOUR tracks? Pure luxury! I had two cassettes and I ping ponged every new layer.

My best friend and I did that with 2 DBX decks and a cheap Radio Shack mixer. The sound quality holds up today. Just had to make sure the levels were right each bounce.
I was much more productive with these setups than I am now with Logic and have everythingthat I could wish for.
Didn't touch a 4 track until 1988, and it that little Fostex thing.

[VitaminD]

Who in that era owned all that gear in his video? Music studios or very wealthy? I doubt he and the rest of us would have had all that gear to be annoyed by it. Maybe he could have borrowed bits and pieces here and there though.

I started later in the 90s but it was with MOD trackers. Producing music in effectively a DOS spreadsheet is it's own form of punishment. Cubase today is worlds apart and such a breeze to use in comparison.

[xtp]

I was slummin it with a 4-track Tascam PortaStudio….

I have a fostex 4 track from the 80's era.

I was still using it for a while, for bouncing my vst bass tracks and drum tracks as well as samples out to the tape, and then back into the daw, to get a bit of analog warble to make the tracks not so precise before adding vocals and guitar.

It must be between 30 and 40 years old now and it still works.
I am not sure about tapes. I have a handful of chrome from the same era.

Bit of a trip down memory lane. I still have a head demagnetizer [is that the right word?] that I bought in the early 80's. I could never figure out if it was working, or even needed, or just a gimmick. I got that more for my stereo, back in the day. You had to hold the prongs to the tape head and slowly move the unit away and then release the button, or something like that.

[harryupbabble]

definitely grateful here and definitely not bitching
daws are almost as good as real recording studios?
what's to bitch and be ungrateful about?

well, the internet seemed to have killed the "supergroup"
where are the led zeppelins and pink floyds now?
heck, where are the billy joels and the paul and carly simons?
and the robert smiths and the freddie mercurys?
and the bowies and other prolific young dudes and gals?

well, there's taylor swift
and that's it?
kinda sparse compared to before?

still, i'm so glad that i'm living in this era
sure, the 60s and 70s are the decades
when so many more songwriters were busy being great
well, it just seems like that to me
maybe the 2030s will be another "songwriter" decade

unlike pete townshend...
i hope i don't die before i get old
i actually wanna see what's ahead

vlad, don't push that red button
please

[ghettosynth]

I WISH I had owned an 8-track in 1985. I was slummin it with a 4-track Tascam PortaStudio….


…and I LIKED it!

You had FOUR tracks? Pure luxury! I had two cassettes and I ping ponged every new layer.

I had to draw waveforms in the dirt with a stick!

No wait. I had a PortaStudio too. A Yamaha QX-5 MIDI sequencer, which was so tedious to use that I just... didn't. An RX-17 drum machine, where 80% of the sounds were shit and the pads didn't have velocity but the sequencer was ironically slightly less of a drag to work with, even though you had to assign a note to each drum pad and separately sequence each of them. And my main synth was a Yamaha DX-100, which was pretty neat except no velocity and all the joys of FM synthesis on a 2-line LCD with a data slider and a couple of buttons for editing.

I'd say small world, but, I think that the early cheap digital Yamaha kit was like Chevy small block parts, you could basically find them on street corners most days of the week. I also had an RX-17 at about the same time I had a DX-27. Truth be told, I got pretty fast programming the DX27 with the single data slider and the (mostly IIRC) button per function. I hated the sounds in the RX-17 and pretty much hate them to this day.

I was very happy to get a Korg DDD-1 to replace the RX-17. It's one of the few pieces of vintage digital gear that I miss a bit and have some nostalgia for.

[Robmobius]

Meh..

[ghettosynth]

Who in that era owned all that gear in his video? Music studios or very wealthy? I doubt he and the rest of us would have had all that gear to be annoyed by it. Maybe he could have borrowed bits and pieces here and there though.

I started later in the 90s but it was with MOD trackers. Producing music in effectively a DOS spreadsheet is it's own form of punishment. Cubase today is worlds apart and such a breeze to use in comparison.

In many parts of the country a lot of that gear was super cheap in the 90s.

[BJ]

I am always thankful for what we have nowadays it even gets me down sometimes thinking what if some of my musical heroes had all this technology? They had so little and still made classics and I can't even finish a decent song even with all that we have available now.

[harryupbabble]

i fiished about 40 songs in a decade
none of them are decent
cos i'm not decent
i'm almost always nude in my bedroom during summer
it's such a pain when people knock on my bedroom door
i'm not built for hell
it's really hot
f**king summer
die already

[BertKoor]

That reverb method (speaker & mike in the bathroom) brings back memories...
I have experimented with making a gated reverb by suddenly shutting the door.