![]() ![]() any platform can accomplish anything and for some people all that matters is the result, some don't care about the journey as much as the result but both are extremely important to me. So many variables, but mainly for me it's all about workflow. In fact, when I find the eventual customer that still uses that kind of rubbish, it’s relatively easy to convince them to switch at least to HDD recording - most of them have a Windows PC at home, and all it takes is to install the free trial version of Cockos Reaper. Of course, I could have misunderstood you and you could be talking about go back to digital home recording hardware, such as the awful BOSS Portastudio (BR-800, BR-1200 CD etc) and other similar crap: in this case, not without a bit of pride, I’ll say I’ve never been there, starting working when I was a kid on a studio that had a proper tape recording system (I could never afford to have one of these at home), then getting my first PC running Sonar 2.5, then multiple iterations of PC and then Mac software, then iOS. Bottom line for me is, I’ll never go back to hardware because I never really left it, I just now have iOS to expand the possibilities. Or still, are you talking about using hardware synths instead of their virtual copies? A real Moog, a real DX7 etc? Well, they are expensive as hell, so I have to cope with the amazing variety of iOS soft synths, but I still plan to get a Minibrute somewhere in the future. Or are you saying going back to micing amps, using stomps etc instead of amp sims? Well, I have a Marshall JTM-30, a plentful of stompboxes, and despite being mostly use amp sims now, I still record my live guitars with them sometimes. ![]() Going back to a beat machine like Maschine, or MPC, or Launchpad, or Circuit? Well, I have my Boss DR-5, which doesn’t obviously compare to these powerhouses, but I use it to control my iOS drums, not to substitute them. I feel this is its greatest strength.ĭepends on what you mean by going back to hardware. ![]() Personally, iOS has helped me catch up on a lot of the tech and more importantly, helped me understand what I want for my workflow. I have a very clear idea of what my music should have in it and say but now a days I'm often unclear how to get things done because of distractions sweet as they may be. I find with all this technology at hand it's a very sweet distraction coupled with impulsive app shopping that has developed to fever pitch at times that gets me in an anxious state because of over choice. etc.and I wrote lyrics back then more naturally then I do today. Writing songs was much more fluid for me back then with voice, guitar, piano, percussion, one small synth with sampler, and Boss digital delay and other effects boxes, wah wah pedal. Even though ios is intriguing and darn right impressive at times I'm often just wanting to use my excellent Fostex 4 track mixer/ recorder( still working great) and record songs again like I did in the 80's. ![]()
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