The democratization of music production has arrived. No longer is one required to spend inordinate amounts of money just to set up a home studio. Gone are the days wherein multi-thousand dollar multitracks, mixers and synthesizers are required. Software is well on its way to replacing the standard hardware based tools of the trade. And it's about time.
Most of the gadgets that are used in the studio are computer processor-based anyway. Why not use a full blown computer to do all of the sound creating and processing? This is only logical.
In a lot of cases musicians and engineers already know this. They know that the tiny computers in the devices they regularly use are inferior by degrees to the immense processing power of the personal computer. And those various gadgets that have become the tools of the trade are so many millstones around the necks and wallets of the studio faithful.
Even hardware helpers like ProTools software fall short of what is now possible with the more advanced and smarter software on the market today. ProTools, the so-called industry standard, is so tethered to gadgets and conventional devices and practices that it only serves to delay the inevitable. Soon recording studios will be mostly virtual.
Enter Sony Acid Software.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Laptop Studios: a Study of the Power and Autonomy of Sony Acid Music Software
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2 comments:
You right on point man...this is the next wave...Computers and chips make everything smaller, quicker, more accessible. You have started a revolution.
Studio in a pocket.
Long live the Joy Project and ArtScience.
Teach brotha.
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