[radiaL] vst and separated tracks

>What, for you, is the ethical issue in a situation
>such as you describe?

You mean for me? Kind of simple. What I record is the equivalent
of the old jazz thing where you walk onstage with the tape rolling
and start playing. For better or worse, the resulting document is
precisely what you did. No overdubs, no sweetening (beyond my
hiring the services of Darwin Grosse, who's the best mastering
engineer I know), no nothing. That's what happened. No one
made me do anything like it - I just realized that the performances
I came to feel were "good* in some way or ones I didn't feel odd
about sharing with people were complete works. This goes back
to the days when I was doing this whole quotation-based mashup
stuff as well - what mattered to me was the record of making a set
of "right" or "fitting" decisions in the heat of the moment. I get a lot
fewer recordings that way - and don't sit at home making tons of
things I don't know what to do with [scratchpadding]; I "practice,"
if ou will, so that I know my material, I'm comfortable with my
interface, and I can spend more time listening than wrestling
with stuff. For me, that's what has become satisfying. It's a
very conservative way to think about what I'm doing, and a
potentially stupid technique for performing live - instead of
taking a bunch of loops that I already know work and then working
to minimize the possibility of risk by carefully choosing the params
to tweak that will make me look cool on stage or some similar kind
of approach [which I am sure makes some people really happy
and wins them the adulation of others], I like the opportunity of
things NOT going well. A successful gig (again, to *me*) feels
better. And while I'd like being rich or famous or sometimes even
wonder about the possiblity of doing something more than once,
this is what I do.

Your mileage may vary, of course. And mine is subject to change
at any point. But that's what the GPS is telling me now.
-- 
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on the page there's a detailed drawing/and on the drawing is the name I took
Gregory Taylor http://www.rtqe.net