[radiaL] vst and separated tracks

no, I understand what you are saying, and indeed
appreciate it. I guess I would have called that an
aesthetic rather than ethical issue, and that was what
I was querying.

I too love a single take (and it is for this reason
that I enjoy working with Radial). Radial lets me
function more as a musician than a programmer, and
ultimately that's where my heart's at.


--- Gregory Taylor <gtaylor at rtqe.net> wrote:

> >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.
> -- 
> on the floor there's a long wooden table/on the
> table there's an open book/
> on the page there's a detailed drawing/and on the
> drawing is the name I took
> Gregory Taylor http://www.rtqe.net
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