2 Jun
2009
2 Jun
'09
7:14 a.m.
On Tuesday 02 June 2009 09.11.41 Ken Restivo wrote:
Some words of wisdom from a local electronic
musician:
http://www.generalfuzz.net/blog/?p=486
He doesn't use Linux, but his point #2 is one of the nice side-effects of
Linux being off the beaten path: there isn't the distraction of entirely
new synths and plugins coming out every day. So it's easier to focus on the
tools that are already there.
Of course, there's another problem replacing it: the potential distraction
of endlessly tweaking the system instead of making music on it.
Great advices, and like his #1 too. As the matter of fact: I decided last fall
to focus on #1 and #2 in order to be more productive. But I have to admit that
I spend way to much time for tweaking the system and nosing on new apps and
stuff.
I was much more productive in the late seventies and in the eighties: I used
to record guitars and vocals and bounce the tracks between two stereo compact
cassette recorders. When I had a little more money, I got a 909, FB-01 , a
JX8P (wonderful synth) and a KORG SQD-1 sequencer, but still into a compact
cassette recorder or two. Not much of equipment and the record quality was
poor - but it was more than enough for making demos and doing stuff. A local
radio station in Oslo, where I lived at the time, was even playing 6-7 of my
songs in a program in '88 or '89; still recorded with SQD-1 and cassette
recorders. Even back then, the local radio stations did compress the music so
hard that everything sounded like shit, so my equipment was sufficient for
that too.
Today, I have everything (and much more) I dreamed of thanks to the myriad of
wonderful Linux audio apps and gizmos, but the productivity is like shit. It's
time to concentrate on #1 and #2 and just make music.
Thanks for pointing this out. :-)
Jostein