MOTM

>From: "Tkacs, Ken" <ken.tkacs@...>
>Reply-To: motm@egroups.com
>To: "'motm@egroups.com'" <motm@egroups.com>
>Subject: [motm] Virtual Everything
>Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 08:36:29 -0500
>
>
>Has anyone read Jeff Rona's article in this month's "Keyboard (sic)
>Magazine" yet? About how he is happily replacing all of the hardware in his
>studio with virtual plug-ins, virtual synths, virtual everything? I 
>couldn't
>even finish reading it. I'll bet their advertisers are happy.
>
>I have a computer loaded with just about everything you could think of ( 
>Cakewalk, Soundforge, Acid, Cubase, and more plug-ins than I can think of 
>right now). I recorded a cd on it and after loosing six months of work due 
>to a crash that happened for no apparent reason, I'm going back to 
>recording on my four track that will always work right when I turn it on!
Even without lag soft synths do not even come close to being the same as 
using hardware. Sure you can put your whole studio in a laptop , but so 
what. I can load my whole studio in a van in four trips by myself, and I 
don't have to worry about some stray bump ruining my hard drive.
I've tried every plug-in that's supposed to replace the warmth of tape and I 
still can't make my guitar sound right.
So I've decided all multitracking will be to tape. Ill still use the 
computer for mastering, but at least when it crashes again I will not have 
to start over from scratch.(When the MOTM sequencer comes out I might even 
stop using Cakewalk for midi!)
This doesn't even touch on how the sft synths sound , but I think anyone who 
has heard soft played next to real analog would always choose analog!

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