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Forums - Mixing & FX
Subject: hardware mixing
Original Message Date: 23-May-02 @ 07:36 PM - hardware mixing
any of you out there mixing using a hardware mixer?
I've been wondering if someone would ever decide to go to a software setup after they've been using mostly hardware....
the reason I ask is that I have always imagined a hardware setup to be the ideal... just sequence the midi, every instrument is feeding into the desk, and start flipping faders and adding fx for a mixdown... I can't help but think that twisting knobs for compression and EQ settings would be somehow better.... I thought that it would also be faster to make tracks, since I don't have to record every single midi track into audio inside my PC - the midi-triggered sounds would just come in through my desk channels.... no need to render them... right??!!?
but lately all this talk about software sampling, etc. is making me wonder.... more and more people are saying they want everything inside the box, and I can see their point.... we're getting closer and closer to all-in-one sample/sequence/edit/midi and it's feckin cool...
this matters to me because if I am aiming toward a hardware setup, I will prolly buy different stuff in the next few years, and I can't decide which way to go....
any talk about the pros and cons of hardware mixing/setups is welcome... thanks!!
I've been wondering if someone would ever decide to go to a software setup after they've been using mostly hardware....
the reason I ask is that I have always imagined a hardware setup to be the ideal... just sequence the midi, every instrument is feeding into the desk, and start flipping faders and adding fx for a mixdown... I can't help but think that twisting knobs for compression and EQ settings would be somehow better.... I thought that it would also be faster to make tracks, since I don't have to record every single midi track into audio inside my PC - the midi-triggered sounds would just come in through my desk channels.... no need to render them... right??!!?
but lately all this talk about software sampling, etc. is making me wonder.... more and more people are saying they want everything inside the box, and I can see their point.... we're getting closer and closer to all-in-one sample/sequence/edit/midi and it's feckin cool...
this matters to me because if I am aiming toward a hardware setup, I will prolly buy different stuff in the next few years, and I can't decide which way to go....
any talk about the pros and cons of hardware mixing/setups is welcome... thanks!!
Message 31/31 30-May-02 @ 01:21 AM - RE: hardware mixing
Influx - no, the PC problems were last year when I was building my box. I used to run all audio WAY back when in 2000 ;-) when I first got into this stuff. Although, with the soft samplers (of which I have none) going the one-sound-at-a-time route probably isn't that bad. It'd be just like sampling the kicks from my pc to my sampler...I guess.
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