IS HARDWARE KILLING COMPUTER MUSIC?
There are some new ways to make music in town and they’re hardas nails. But do these new do-it-all hardware units have all the power of a desktop DAW, and will they make you rethink the way you make music? Time to go to the hard side…
It’s funny how things change, don’t you think? There was a time when music technology folk used to muse on whether software was going to replace hardware - like how could we ever hope to replace a studio with all its keyboards and racks, with a little laptop computer and a few bits of software? But we did. Not to the extent that studios disappeared, but a lot did, and most of us are happily making music at home or on the bus.