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=related, 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 _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
