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kim's refreshing insight




I hear a lot of what Kim is saying (and eloquently put, btw).

The only mitigating factor for me is that
the music I can create in 20 minutes by using
Fruity Loops Pro (as a drum machine and crude midi sequencer),
Tu2 (loop mangler supreme), Kantos (audio triggered synth from
Antares that is awesome), ACID (where I put it all together)
and Sound Forge (with a zillion mangling plugins)
is just astonishing.

I can create sophisticated tracks and pieces that would have
taken hours or days to create (if at all) 10 years ago in my
life.

My understanding (and it is probably naive) is that
you basicaly go A-D,  run it through software and then D-A
and that this simple model rules all digital processing.

Of course if you are trying to do e-mail and edit simultaneously
(and I lost a mastering exercise the other day because my pesky
56k modem disconnected.....;-) you can't expect for the machine to
run properly, but in these days of 3 ghz Pentium 4s (and whatever they
are up to on the Mac side), the processing power is screaming.

Like every instrument, the computer has it's drawbacks and limitations
but, I have to say, for pound for pound sheer creative potential it is
the most incredible instrument that I've ever played in my whole life
(and I've played quite a few).

If some people like DAWs.........that's great
If some people think there is more JuJu in Analogue 
tape.............groovy.
Truly, it's all good.

I just promised myself I would never buy a closed architecture computer
instrument
again in my life.............it's what, frankly, scares me about purchasing
a laptop
(whose CPUs tend to be soldered onto their respective boards making them
impossible to upgrade).

There, I said it..............lol

rick