Re: Loop effects: Can software be as good as good hardware?

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On Jul 4, 2006, at 0:39, improv@peak.org wrote:

> But man, having had computers fail
> onstage before, I don't know if I'd want to trust them that  
> completely.

This is the reason I have programmed some "looping patches" into my  
FireworX (hardware fx processor) although I normally do all looping  
on a laptop (running Mobius). I the computer should break I would be  
able to keep up with my role in the group.... well, to some extent ;-)


> I think there's still a place for good analog hardware. I have yet  
> to find
> a software emulator that sounds as good as my minimoog, my MOTM  
> modular,
> my Space Echo and my Neve preamps. But, over the last few years, I  
> have
> gotten rid of my good digital reverbs and samplers, because Logic's  
> Space
> Designer and EXS 24, through good converters, sound as good to my  
> ears,
> and are about a million times easier to use in my studio.

I too produce recordings with Logic and I couldn't have said it  
better myself. Some records I did in the nineties (before I was able  
to go full time into experimental looping music) was done with a huge  
Neve console, all kinds of tube compressors etc and analog 24 tack  
recorders. I still like that sound but I wouldn't say that it sounds  
"better" than software. A Neve board sounds like a Never board,  
that's it. Nuendo (software) sounds like Nuendo etc.

I think that most gear and software available today sounds good  
enough. After all, it's the music that matters.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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