Re: AW: where DAW

[improv@peak.org (Dave Trenkel)]

>sorry if this has already been answered ...
>
>>I paid 600 bucks for SAW +
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>what's SAW+ ?
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>also, in one sentence, why does one need ADAT if one has a multiplex
>soundcard and can do all recording on the harddisk? (I'm about to invest
>into some harddisk recording gear so I'm wondering)
>
I primarily do disk-based recording, but a friend has an ADAT that I can
borrow/rent as needed. In the last couple of projects I've worked on, I did
all the basic tracking on ADAT and mixed, edited and mastered on the
computer. I think recording a full band is way easier with ADAT. The media
is way cheaper and easier to swap when one gets full, very handy when the
band has to do 10 takes of a song to get it right. Also, an ADAT is much
less likely to crash in the middle of *THE MAGIC TAKE* (one of the studio
versions of murphy's law is that if a hardware failure is going to happen,
it will only happen during the recording of a truly magical,
unreproduceable moment). Also, since I don't exactly have a studio space, I
record at the band's houses, rehearsal spaces, whatever. It's much easier
to move and set up an ADAT system than a computer. And I've never had to
defragment an ADAT. But if you're doing the one person overdubbing one
track at a time home studio thing, a hard disk system will probably be
fine. OK, so thins was more than one sentence.

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Dave Trenkel : improv@peak.org  : www.peak.org/~improv/

"...there will come a day when you won't have to use
gasoline. You'd simply take a cassette and put it in
your car, let it run. You'd have to have the proper
type of music. Like you take two sticks, put 'em
together, make fire. You take some notes and rub 'em
together - dum, dum, dum, dum - fire, cosmic fire."
                                            -Sun Ra
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