RE: the screen in between

[goddard.duncan@mtvne.com]

Title: RE: the screen in between

>>I've never enjoyed using a computer for music-making, and I've been using the Korg D1600mkII since February of this year for music recording. I'm more of a real-time player than a software composer/manipulator, though......Once the sounds are in the box, you can edit pretty decently....<<

doug, chaps- I too have become a big fan of the korg multitracks. we started with a mk1 1600, & pretty soon it was joined by a mk2 & a 1200. having a machine each with a common file format is very useful when the three of us live in different cities. also, I take the (160Gb) hard drive out of my mk2 & use it in the guitarist's mk1 when I visit, without any problems.

it is possible to do quite a lot of "post" on the korg itself, either using the waveform scrub or just banging in edit points on the fly. I onjce cut 4 bars out of a band recording & had to undo the operation to prove to myself that something had actually happened, the edit was so good.

but my usual method these days is to do some or all of the mixing in the korg, then export the mix(es) as wavs for further work in vegas (the software, not the place).

I think one of the reasons I prefer this more linear approach to recording (it's a lot like using a multitrack tapedeck) is that it encourages one to "commit & move on". my other half has recently graduated from cubase to logic on a g5, & is forever exasperating me with her endless retakes & versions; the desktop of the poor powerbook she ran cubase on is littered with files called "audio 3_03052004.take1" & so forth.

also, working linearly is more likely to preserve a single performance (even if you overdub parts or retakes, the basic track will tend to be in one lump).

I'm rambling.....

duncan.

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