22 Mar
2010
22 Mar
'10
11:50 a.m.
It is a different situation when you know that
EVERYONE goes through this.
It is an absolutely different
story when you know for a fact that users of another operating system have
good working solutions of the
problem you are having. And so not having automation is a bit weird. As
shown above, automation is
essential in certain very widely spread types of electronic music when you
need to turn many knobs at
the same time to achieve the result. Asking 15 of your friends to help you
do this during recording is
a bit too much I think though it might make for a good record into the
book of records.
It's not true that this kind of automation really is done by heavy mixing.
Yes, e.g. when I used my Atari ST and Cubase I had a Window with MIDI SysEx
controllers e.g. for my Oberheim Matrix-1000. A separated MIDI port and that
it was. This kind of automation is missing for Linux. But I wish to have
some examples off all that music that reportedly makes a lot of usage of
automation for the mixer. There isn't much of that music. Doing this is
unusual, it very often is done by inexperienced musicians and hobby
engineers because they guess it's the way to do it like this, once they are
more experienced they won't do it by automation any more.
Ralf