
Jeff Ling
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I've use Alesis HD24 recorders for years and if you can find a used one, I'd highly recommend the machine. It just works.
I prefer a stand alone unit myself and I have plenty of actual reasons and valid ones as to why.Or just get a PC and an interface. I don't understand this shunning of computer based DAWs that we occasionally see here. I'm not saying it's the future, because I first have to say it's the PRESENT.![]()
Never mind, too many attitudes.
Thanks
Hmmmm, I wonder if you really do. Benefit schmenefit !I completely understand the benefits of a standalone.
None of that has ever once entered my mind.They were often cheaper and could get by with using less powerful yet purpose built risc processors and simpler operating software that could avoid the necessary layer of abstraction a general purpose cpu in a computer running a general purpose OS would have to use in order to do the same thing
Yet, here we are discussing them and you're doing your level best to change peoples' minds about them. Hmmmmm. They can't compete.......Market wise, you're right. But as I've observed elsewhere, life is simply not as cut and dried as that. Some people still cook on fires. Some on kerosene and parafin stoves. And they're happy to do so. Why buy them a fan assissted oven and combination gas/electric hob ?Today, however, with the myriad of cheap interfaces and even cheaper PC components they simply cannot compete.
Why is excercizing a choice to not do what you deem to be best idiotic ? Different people have different reasons for the paths they choose to take. People are attracted by different things. Some people may not want to record on computers for a whole myriad of reasons. Simplicity, cheapness and convenience are not absolute arbiters for everyone in the decision making process. Especially when regardless of what you use, the result is the same. That's the joy of choice.And I'm sure those who have used them from their introduction on the market have much invested and have been able to milk great results from them. But, for a newcomer to the game who has never owned so much as a 4-track cassette machine to avidly and deliberately avoid "computer recording" is idiotic.
Few manufacturers deliberately make faulty goods. Most mechanical and electrical devices are "well engineered". But things still go wrong because however well made something is, nothing made by human minds and hands is infallible. Just like us.A well engineered computer that is in healthy shape should never give you the types of problems some people claim they do.
I know alot of cats on the forum speak alot about budgets and costings and stuff, but in much the same way that blood is thicker than water, experience trumps money.To sum it up, If you are using an Alesis HD24 then good for you. If you are a noob that hasn't even bought a microphone yet, don't waste your money.
I just saw this answer in another thread. Some people might look at that, in combination with other factors and think "Computers aren't for me". I'm not knocking you by the way, I think it was a good reply to the question posed but people think differently.It can save processing power. If you have a slow cpu and 10 simultaneous tracks with plugins are bogging down the system and you need more tracks, you can make sure they are mixed how you want them and bounce them down (mixdown) to a stereo track with all effects applied. It's similar to the "exporting" you describe except it automagically puts the mixdown into it's own track for you and (in most cases) allows you to undo if you messed up. It's better practice to group your bounces (guitar tracks to one track, drums to another, etc.) instead of the simplified way I just described. If you aren't hitting this kind of CPU wall in your projects it is something you will rarely use.
I know but just to be clear ..... 'easy' is a non factor in why i like a standalone.You know....a tape deck is even easier.
Just kidding...
yeah ......... this is why we can't have nice things!