Poll: Hardware or Software? What do you use?

[Bstrom]

Let's get some perspective on the reality of a hardware vs. software approach to recording and producing today.
The 'times they are a-changin' Bob said so let's see just how much...

 

[PorterhouseMusic]

I selected the last choice.

I'm a novice. I make simple recordings. But I'm new to Reaper. I still spend time with the DP-32SD. The workflow is so familiar. Increasingly - as time allows - I'm tracking with the Tascam and then moving files into reaper. So kinda hybrid-ish. I either use hardware during tracking or sometimes run something through a component or two after it's been captured. Evolving.

Want. Retirement. Bad.

 

[rob aylestone]

I hope you don't mind but I edited the poll so you can have multiple choices, because lots of people have mentioned in posts that they have both OS choices, and I do too.
I'm also a bit confused with the description. I have my interface connected to the computers - so in the box after conversion in the oreamp, but is that also not option 3 and 4? Did you mean say, somebody recording to a hardware recorder, then editing that in the computer? I think I picked the right box, but now not so certain?

 

[Papanate]

I have some hardware - like an Audio Interface and Microphones - I have software Like Logic Pro and various plugins- I don’t think about the ‘right’ thing to use - I just use what works.

 

[Bstrom]

I hope you don't mind but I edited the poll so you can have multiple choices, because lots of people have mentioned in posts that they have both OS choices, and I do too.
I'm also a bit confused with the description. I have my interface connected to the computers - so in the box after conversion in the oreamp, but is that also not option 3 and 4? Did you mean say, somebody recording to a hardware recorder, then editing that in the computer? I think I picked the right box, but now not so certain?

Just looking for those who use hardware (analog) vs. software (in-the-box) exclusively to record - or both in an analog/digital arrangement - and the platform they use.

 

[DM60]

Unless you are going to tape, IMO you are using a computer. I have a little Audiobox attached to my laptop (I also have the option of attaching my Tascam to it), I still consider it a computer. The portastudios use computers as their guts, probably some Linux distro scaled down. I consider them single purpose computers. Maybe splitting hairs or we need to define the word "computer" differently. Probably everyone means PC/Mac/Linux on a multi use machine? Plus we still have people here who really are hardware, effects rack->straight to tape. Now that is hardware recording.

 

[rob aylestone]

that was my thought. Recording to hardware devices just gives all the snags we had when they were new. I have lots of reel to reels, but why would I ever record on them. Interface, computer, press record and now worry that the recording will uncover a dodgy bit of tape, or clog the heads leaving you with nothing!

 

[PorterhouseMusic]

that was my thought. Recording to hardware devices just gives all the snags we had when they were new. I have lots of reel to reels, but why would I ever record on them. Interface, computer, press record and now worry that the recording will uncover a dodgy bit of tape, or clog the heads leaving you with nothing!

And digital media and storage is cheap. And practically limitless.

 

[DM60]

For our needs, it is limitless. Now, big data centers...

 

[Papanate]

And digital media and storage is cheap. And practically limitless.

And it’s easy to backup.

 

[Bstrom]

I am realizing rather belatedly that the perceived inference to hardware has been taken for tape users, rack analyzers, etc. which is what I intended - and not simply a reference to computers which we all use.
Just whether you use analog gear exclusively or an in-the-box approache - or a mix of both. That's all I was looking for...

Really appreciating the responses to this poll.