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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 29 2021, @05:03PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 29 2021, @05:03PM (#1140055)

    Like any industrial machinery, studio equipment needs maintenance. It's easier and cheaper to replace a laptop and audio interface than to service a console. What IT issues would you have with a tablet? [musicianwave.com]

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 29 2021, @09:51PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 29 2021, @09:51PM (#1140110)

    Besides malware, breaking upgrades, disputes between developers and app stores, figuring out ways to plug in interfaces with the new stupid clagnuts, and that touchscreens are pretty lousy central interfaces?

    I can't imagine.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 31 2021, @01:32AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 31 2021, @01:32AM (#1140392)

      Besides malware

      How does the malware get on a device you're using exclusively for audio production?

      breaking upgrades

      Do you not update the firmware on your "hardware" devices?

      disputes between developers and app stores

      What is the warranty and support period for your "hardware"?

      The journal specifically asks about DAW setups but let's entertain ≥90 dB SNR of your Tascam - so why does that sound shitty compared to the 70-80dB of magnetic tape? Yes I do know the answer and yes, modern entry level audio interfaces (eg: Focusrite and MOTU) do piss all over your "hardware" setup.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 05 2021, @03:13AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 05 2021, @03:13AM (#1141949)

        "How does the malware get on a device you're using exclusively for audio production?"

        If and only if you never go online with it, the answer is that it mostly doesn't. But at that point, you're paying big money for a device without even so much as hardware controls, that wasn't purpose-designed for the role. This is not a good user experience. You might as well buy something intended for the purpose, such as (to pick one example from many) a Deluge. It'll generally be easier to use for the purpose and more rugged besides.

        "Do you not update the firmware on your "hardware" devices?"

        Breaking upgrades don't happen in the same way on dedicated single-purpose units. However, there's a constant battle between app devs and platform controllers about various settings, which ones get to stay on which app stores, and what their compatibilities are allowed to be. None of this applies to updating your MPC4000 or KORG Kronos or whatever. If they come out with a firmware upgrade that you don't like, need or want, you don't bother downloading it for an installation.

        "What is the warranty and support period for your "hardware"?"

        Generally breath-takingly far beyond what your slab-o-glass gets. Moog Voyager getting cranky? You can find technicians who will work on it. Like, right now. 2015 ipad with just all the right things set up just the way you like them getting cranky? Bend over for the nice guy in the apple suit, and smile for the camera. There are people who will actively service music equipment going back decades, and no-questions-asked warranties are generally counted in years. If your 2015 Krome gets creaky after too many barroom gigs, you can get it serviced.

        "The journal specifically asks about DAW setups but let's entertain ≥90 dB SNR of your Tascam - so why does that sound shitty compared to the 70-80dB of magnetic tape? Yes I do know the answer and yes, modern entry level audio interfaces (eg: Focusrite and MOTU) do piss all over your "hardware" setup."

        Right. You can walk right up with your 24IPS tape and do amazing things and it will sound magnificent for top dollar as a hardware solution (because tapes and decks do not come cheap - but what does this have to do with DAWs), but back in the land of the DAW, your Focusrite will get you all the groupies. Lovely. None of that has anything to do with the pain of using that shit. If an Apple with a T2 chip introduces glitches on your USB audio interface? Try not to let your tears spoil the shot while the man in the apple suit loves you. If you have a Fantom that's glitching? You get a warranty replacement, and a handsome apology.

        That's the difference.

        (By the way, all the neo-audiophile spooging about how pristine their up-to-the-nanosecond bleeding-edge tech sounds in their semi-megabuck tuned listening rooms are completely missing the point that their music will actually be heard over teens shrieking at each other, or traffic noise, or FM freaking radio, through bargain basement speakers or whatever they plugged into their phablets this week to look cooler than the next schlub on the subway. By the time you have enough headroom and bitdepth to mix and master for CD, you might as well call it good because Spotify will still rape your stream on its way to a phone with a shitty DAC plugged into Doctor Deff's Hearing Loss Enablers. Sure, keep a clean signal path through your studio, but if you think that's the defining criterion of success you'd better start by throwing out every album using a classic Moog, because their noise floor is high enough to colour the sound regardless of what you use to record them. You can slap together a prosumer home studio today that would have given Madonna circa 1984 an instagasm in terms of the raw capabilities, without a general-purpose computing device in sight, and with a much cleaner audio signal than damn near any 1980s synth could even theoretically provide.)