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Re: Would love your input, stories, suggestions
All of a sudden I'm glad I stuck with the old stuff. The VS-2480 still
works, once I get good with it.
Rig
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On Thu, 10/6/16, Richard Sales <richard@glasswing.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: Would love your input, stories, suggestions
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Date: Thursday, October 6, 2016, 5:10 AM
No question software is incredibly
vulnerable to planned entropy. I've spent a fortune
keeping up with the digital Joneses but turns out the
digital Joneses are all hula skirts and Hawaiian shirts and
no palm trees or ocean - or as they say in country music,
'All hat, no horse'. They keep adding bells and
whistles to every aspect of the experience that clog the
data arteries. Go figure.
The move from regular wires to db25
which started around eight years ago has cost me a couple
thousand pints of blood and totally forces new logic on my
studio design. I don't know if anything was gained
from that. Dats, ADATS... all worth about as much as a
used mousetrap these days.
The old saw is, Digital is a
capitalist's wet dream. Like buying a car that, in
five years you won't be able to find tires or gasoline
for.
Revamping the wiring of my studio
now. It's like Extreme Tetris. Enormous logistics,
turning the Rubric's Cube this way and that and each
time seeing new options and better, more ergonomic ways to
set it up.
As I said before, I used to love
technology but now I pretty much resent its time sucking
intrusion into my creative process. High tech used to work
for me, but now I work for it! And the improvements strike
me as running downhill.
It's a transfer of wealth from
the creative class to technology. So my forty year
spending spree is pretty much over - as Rick Walker was sort
of saying. I'm not paying Avid $1000 a year to
subscribe to hardware and software (Pro Tools HDX) I've
owned for decades.
Someone in a third world country
could feed, house, raise and educate a family of twelve...
and retire in comfort for what I've spent on this
stuff.
I do think someone could make a
fine living stripping out all the bells and whistles from
the OS and selling those versions to recently born again,
time strapped Luddites like me. Same with software
function of DAWs.
There's nothing like a great
guitar and great amp. It's the willing spouse
that's ever attractive and exotically faithful. Add
some pedals and your kingdom has come! Of course,
there's 20 fine guitars on my wall now and ten fine amps
in the back room, but as long as I fire 'em up once a
month, they will be singing long after this very expensive
digital stuff has gone to the recycling centre... or sold
for $200.
Don't think my AxeFX II XL+
will be worth a dozen sets of guitar strings in ten years -
but it IS fun.
There are some good digital
companies like Spectrasonics that makes Omnisphere. Also
Native Instruments big Kontakt, although integration into
Vienna Ensemble Pro requires huge Tetris finagling and hours
under the hood trying to get the pistons all moving
harmoniously.
I just wanted to play music - not
fly the Starship Enterprise!I'm hoping this studio revision
will make it easier, but I'm sure the software
update/upgrade guys will do all they can to eat my precious
time.
My current thoughts on Time?
Don't spend it all in one place!:)Richard Sales
On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 4:13
AM, Ivodne Galatea <takas20@hotmail.com>
wrote:
And
then there was the nightmare of Logic Pro stopping accepting
32-bit plugins in the upgrade from 9 to X. For those of us
who upgraded while sleep-deprived and deleted the old one to
save room on our battle-weary 2009 macbooks it meant a
sudden loss of facility that took breath away. I certainly
didn't have the wherewithal to buy new shiny 64-bit
plugins, and most of the old ones had developers who had
disappeared. And I didn't want to lose the intuition I
had developed with the old plugins.It
wasn't until that company SoundRadix brought out
32-lives that I could exhale.
I know the logic of shifting to
64-bit and addressability and legacy code, but it really
felt abusive. Facing it all over again now that my laptop
won't run the new MacOs.
From: amyx@isproductions.com
Subject: Would love your input, stories,
suggestions
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2016 21:29:32
-0700
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-
delight.com
Folks
--
This thread on Mobius
problems with the new system is interesting. I use Mobius in
my performances; my musical career is absolutely dependent
on it. It works consistently well on the old system I am
running, which I cannot upgrade until I get a new
mixer/interface, because the one I have used to create my
current repertoire requires MLAN software that Yamaha
stopped making several years ago. Porting my songs over to a
different technology (say a MIDI fader box and all effects
in software), could easily take months, so I plan to take
time off from performing next year in order to do nothing
but that.
That kind of
sucks.
Later this
month I am giving a talk at Project BBQ (a yearly think tank
of audio professionals -- http://www.projectbarbq.com
) on the topic of how the pressure to constantly upgrade
software, forcing one to often upgrade hardware, causing one
to have to re-program, re-think and sometimes abandon
one's compositions. affects the life of a working
artist, or really anyone dependent on uninterrupted use of
these products.
At the
same time, clearly advances in technology have been
stunning, and it's great to be able to take advantage of
them.
I'm looking
for:a) any interesting stories you might have
about how upgrades have caused disruption to your art,
andb) any constructive suggestions for this group
of professionals. How might they support artists who are
dependent on their products? How might they continue to
develop new products but keep us happy as well, and make
this profitable? What about trying harder to keep upgrades
compatible with older software/hardware? Are there options
to having to purchase new laptops every few
years?
Thanks all! I
welcome your input on this ever-prevalent topic. I want to
be helpful to artists in this talk -- it's an
opportunity to speak directly to the folks who actually make
the stuff.. what would you like to tell them or ask
them?
xx
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Amy X Neuburg
http://www.amyxneuburg.com
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On Sep 26, 2016, at 10:33 AM,
Richard Sales <richard@glasswing.com>
wrote:
Yes indeed. My question nowadays
is, Who's serving who?And it's a question that can
range very wide - and reach into the deepest changes and
most important elements in our culture. Tell you the
Truth? I'm a little worried. And I'm not the
worrying kind.
On Mon, Sep
26, 2016 at 9:07 AM, Kevin Cheli-Colando <billowhead@gmail.com>
wrote:
I used to really
love technology.
Isn't that the
truth :-)
--
richard sales
www.glasswing.comHope is the thing with
feathers that perches in the soul - Emily
Dickinson
--
richard sales
www.glasswing.comHope is the thing with
feathers that perches in the soul - Emily
Dickinson