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So have we gone all soft? 2004-06-03T15:41:37+00:00 it occurred to me today how far removed i am now from my lovely hardware set-up i used to have. lots of glistening lights, lots of solidly constructed beige boxes which did exactly what they said on the tin, lots of black and white keys staring at me from all directions. a room devoted to my true love. then there were the manuals (remember them), cables everywhere, big rack and so on. wow, i used to feel so musical. so.....involved. well zoom forward two years and my once divine studio is now no different than a computer programmer, a pc gamer, a home businessman/woman, your dad, your sons or anything else that can be done on a pc. so with the slow march of software taking us over, we all become one. add to that the dire state of the music business in general and we're nothing more than no-hopers. however, i'd not say i'm not happy with software, far from it, it's great that eveything can be saved to one place, that was my ultimate dream. but something died when i sold all my stuff. my manuals turned into pdfs, my twiddly knobs on instruments suddenly became twiddly knobs not attached to anything particular, my keyboard turned dumb, my midi know how seemed old and my bedroom i called studio suddenly didn't quite warrant the word studio anymore, as my g/f makes a beeline to put a bed where the rack was. ah well, as long as the music is not affected. would i ever know if it was? well i think that staring at a computer screen for every single moment of composing and producing music is detrimental to the process. yeah, you might get the job done and be happy. but how much happier would you be doing it differently. hardware sequencers are a good argument to bring in here. a very different and more natural way of working (imo), but it's true and i believe any person that's used one would agree. does anyone feel they miss something from taking down their hardware set-up and replacing with software? Aff https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=8388

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Post by putte » Wed Mar 08, 2006 10:04 pm

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.. i am very happy using my software arsenal. though, as of lately i used to record in hardware-studios, having quite some of these superb old thingies like neve-console, manley stuff, massenburg, etc ..

and its VERY tempting, as i think i can still hear the diffrence. no wonder, as i'm used to listen to old music that made use of vintage-only stuff.

though, i won't change my plan of having a softwarestudio, as speed and convenience is a very important issue to me ..
i hope that i can outsource several things in the future, in order to achieve a balance of both worlds ..

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