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Re: [microsound] silliness: was Re: [microsound] audio input in PC laptops again
why I stopped reading product mags, bought a laptop and said "I have to
deal with this credit card bill so I had better make some art." I was
just tired of that kind of noise. this synth does _what_? wow! and
this one does _that_? I haven't been to guitar center in what seems
like a decade (though it hasn't been)
at some point, either in one's studio practice or in one's actual work
- you should be able to say "this is enough."
the people selling us shiny toys may not agree, but, whatever.
Seems to be a feature of music production that we are always being
exhorted
to buy the latest piece of shit because you won't be able to hear a
micro-milli-nano-hz of noise that may occur in an otherwise faultless
recording. And of
course it will have so many new features.
Well of course you will have to buy shitloads of new RAM but that's
coming
down in price all the time, then you will need the latest Windows
version (of
course you can upgrade) but then sadly you'll need a new sound card,
which won't
then talk to some of your plug ins and so on....
But you'll be able to make a perfect track, once you've earnt the dosh
to pay
for it, gone out and bought having thoroughly researched it, installed
it,
got over the problems, downloaded the relevant patches, learnt how to
use all
"the amazing new features". By this time there will be an even better
upgrade
along. So fuck it, use what you can get hold of. Luckily for us there
are the
anoraks who like to upgrade and upgrade to brag to their mates and the
mainstream pop industry who spend a fortune on improvements that most
of their dopey
punters won't even notice (well, with the exception of Autotune).These
2 groups
keep the money coming in for developing the products we may eventually
decide
to own, they also regularly discard some quite useable kit which is
suited to
our purposes.
"You might laugh at me and call me Brigitte Bardot but when bombs get
dropped they hit cats." chris nagler
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