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Looper's Delight
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It all depends on what you grew up on. If you started out with analog 4-tracks, patch cables, and having dedicated hardware for everything, then you might as well stick with that approach and get a DAW. I got into Cakewalk (now Sonar) at version 2.0, when it fit on one 1.44MB floopy disk and before it even did digital audio at all, so I have basically grown up on that software. There is stuff out there that everyone says is better, but for me it's not worth the downtime to re-learn everything. With so many people switching over to using PCs and Macs for recording/composing purposes I don't see hardware as disappearing, but as getting closer and closer to being computers in themselves. The problem now is getting data back and forth between external hardware in as fast and transparent way as you can move it to and from disk on a computer. It would be great if, say, a sampler, would just speak TCP/IP and have a built in FTP server, and a telnet or SSH server with a console interface. Boot it up, connected to the internet or your LAN, and it has its own IP, or will DHCP one. That would be friggin' awesome. No more proprietary mLAN, or Akai.sys bullshit. No more pokey SCSI/MIDI SDMI transfers. USB implementations are okay, but still require proprietary clients which, once the hardware is superceeded by the next version, inevitably are never updated for new computer OS releases. 100Mbps ethernet for everything -- maybe even wireless! Come on, somebody. Move into the 21st century. Make everything UNIX-based and fluent in TCP/IP, a world-wide standard language. Even Macintosh has realized that things are headed this way (OSX is Unix-based). Windows will go there, eventually (Windows NT is based on FreeBSD, I heard), but they will have a nasty, bloated legacy OS for years to come. I'm sure someone on this list knows what I'm talking about with all these acronyms above. For those of you who don't, sorry to bother you. It will happen eventually. Just wait. -J