22 Mar
2010
22 Mar
'10
noon
Louigi Verona wrote:
alex stone wrote:
"The weight of alternate responses seems to be geared toward a precise
definition of the use of automation, for a particular use case, which
is outside of the worklfow of some."
Yes, indeed. I, for instance, is an electronic musician. I do not
record stuff,
I do not have takes. For me automation is close to 60-70% of the work,
because
my tunes are tunes of sound manipulation. Most electronic music is not
note based
music, that is, its beauty lies not in the notes it plays, but in the
way sound is manipulated,
arrangement is built. For me automation is as important as an ability
to have a master sync.
And automation is being put on a lot of things - on a lot of
parameters of synthesizers,
on volume, panning, gating and God knows how many things.
And at the same time my music is not "experimental" music like they do
with CSound.
It is ambient, dub, it is usually pretty sweet to the ears (that is,
no harsh, non-melodic sounds)
and to a person who is not familiar with the process of creation of
such a music it may be
of a surprise that doing such music takes so much delicate tweaking.
Louigi.
But among other kinds of music I'm doing this kind of music too and
because of having just two audio IOs for my Envy24 based sound card I
can't use my analogue mixing console, what IMO would be the best way to
mix this kind of music. And just as one example, for this kind of music
I do use synth sounds that do change the volume the way I need it, I
seldom do it by a mixer.
IMO especially for music similar to this, we do need better sync.
Automation for Linux is on the rise.
I've to admit, that I started as a classical pop, punk, rock, jazz
musician and audio engineer, so perhaps I even would mix an audio
collage in a different way. Please listen to orchestral atonal twelve
tone music, e.g. to my favourite Arnold Schoenberg. It's unworldly to do
heavy mixing. Perhaps you like Fred Frith & Otomo Yoshihide
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9aOWSemwcs&feature=relatedated, if you like
to do something similar with MIDI synth you need to do heavy MIDI event
editing, but still less mixing. I know some kinds of music, were people
from the MIT were using data gloves to mix music, IMO this are
exceptional cases, needed by a handful of users.
Ralf