Predictions for the Future of Audio

[grimtraveller]

Man, that's weird. I had a dream one night that I was looking through a puddle and I saw a moth and an elk drinking beer and playing 9-ball.

Even weirder, I wrote a script for an as yet unscreened TV movie in which I drink a puddle while an elk knocks a black pool ball into some beer. No network would take it though, because it had no moths.

 

[moresound]

You mean a rainbow like this???








And btw....I predict in the future that this guy will be president and whatever he is on will be legal.

Yeah dastrick kinda like that.

BTW I never posted that on youtube it's just part of my personal video files from vacations. How did you get a hold of it?

 

[frederic]

We all know we can record to wave files and email and ftp them all over the place. This is done every day and collaboration can occur over a vast geography. But, it's not real time.

I predict that a very big thing will be an "audio network" riding over either private networks or the public internet. The recording engineer and his console equipment could be located in Nashville, and the guitarist might be located in California, the bassist in Japan, and the drummer in Sweden, and the vocalist in Georgia.

Through audio routers, they all plug their instruments and/or mics into their audio router, and that router transmits the audio digitally across private/public networks to the recording engineer, who patches them into his console via ordinary ethernet instead of XLR or 1/4" TRS.

He can send each musician a virtual mix emphasizing that musician's track in that musician's headphones, while recording everyone simultaniously through the console to whatever media, analog or digital, that is normally used.

No flights, no emailing of 500mb wave files, no travel costs.

Right in the middle of a recording the bassist in Japan throws a fit, you can unplug him and call another bassist and have him/her plug in - on the fly.

I see tremendous opportunity for both technology manufacturers, recording studios, and musicians who embrace this kind of technology.

 

[Greg_L]

Prediction?


Pain.

 

[moresound]

We all know we can record to wave files and email and ftp them all over the place. This is done every day and collaboration can occur over a vast geography. But, it's not real time.

I predict that a very big thing will be an "audio network" riding over either private networks or the public internet. The recording engineer and his console equipment could be located in Nashville, and the guitarist might be located in California, the bassist in Japan, and the drummer in Sweden, and the vocalist in Georgia.

Through audio routers, they all plug their instruments and/or mics into their audio router, and that router transmits the audio digitally across private/public networks to the recording engineer, who patches them into his console via ordinary ethernet instead of XLR or 1/4" TRS.

He can send each musician a virtual mix emphasizing that musician's track in that musician's headphones, while recording everyone simultaniously through the console to whatever media, analog or digital, that is normally used.

No flights, no emailing of 500mb wave files, no travel costs.

Right in the middle of a recording the bassist in Japan throws a fit, you can unplug him and call another bassist and have him/her plug in - on the fly.

I see tremendous opportunity for both technology manufacturers, recording studios, and musicians who embrace this kind of technology.

This has seen hope in the near future through Skype. There was a lot of talk about it and big hype but I have yet to see anything come of it.
I think Dintymoore ( and if it's not him it's who ever lives in Hawaii that is here on HR) had some great thoughts about it with real time recordings around the world and such.
I had some good talks back and forth with him several months ago.

 

[mshilarious]

MSH............ it won't have anything to do with heat transference but much like what already happens naturally in nature, light refraction, like a rainbow.

Rainbows are powered by the sun . . . you need a power source to generate light, and that means lights. I don't see why that can't be done now.

Also, to view refracted light "in the air" as you do with a rainbow, you need something to reflect the refracted light back at you, be that water droplets or whatever. Notice how if you stare at the sun, you don't see a rainbow . . .

We have been used to seeing primary colors at shows but the mixture of the combination of all the overtones will produce a futuristic light show that will be new and exciting. Something that will have to be witnessed to believe.

OK, you can already have any combination of color you like--the problem is when you combine lots of colors, you get tones of white. That isn't too exciting, so lighting techs stick with more dramatic colors.

I saw Iron Maiden in 1988, they used a translucent stage with fog machines underneath in sealed enclosures with lights inside. Such that they could change the color of the stage. That was a neat effect . . .

 

[Greg_L]

We all know we can record to wave files and email and ftp them all over the place. This is done every day and collaboration can occur over a vast geography. But, it's not real time.

I predict that a very big thing will be an "audio network" riding over either private networks or the public internet. The recording engineer and his console equipment could be located in Nashville, and the guitarist might be located in California, the bassist in Japan, and the drummer in Sweden, and the vocalist in Georgia.

Through audio routers, they all plug their instruments and/or mics into their audio router, and that router transmits the audio digitally across private/public networks to the recording engineer, who patches them into his console via ordinary ethernet instead of XLR or 1/4" TRS.

He can send each musician a virtual mix emphasizing that musician's track in that musician's headphones, while recording everyone simultaniously through the console to whatever media, analog or digital, that is normally used.

No flights, no emailing of 500mb wave files, no travel costs.

Right in the middle of a recording the bassist in Japan throws a fit, you can unplug him and call another bassist and have him/her plug in - on the fly.

I see tremendous opportunity for both technology manufacturers, recording studios, and musicians who embrace this kind of technology.

It already exists. It's called Ninjam. It's stupid as hell though and there's latency problems. But it's there.

 

[moresound]

Or we could all go the opposite way such as in the movie "Idiotocracy" where the whole world just dumbs down to mindless sheep.

I think we may be almost there!

 

[Greg_L]

Or we could all go the opposite way such as in the movie "Idiotocracy" where the whole world just dumbs down to mindless sheep.

I think we may be almost there!

The internet has alreay achieved that. People were way smarter before the internet gave them a voice. Now the whole world can see the idiotic ramblings of dummies hiding behind computer screens. Myself included. Or, maybe people were just as dumb and we just didn't know it. Either way, humankind was better off before the internet.

 

[leadlungbetty]

I find this post horribly entertaining.

 

[grimtraveller]

Or, maybe people were just as dumb and we just didn't know it.

The mafia, the communists, drug dealers, pimps, record company execs and various government departments long suspected it !

 

[philbagg]

I reckon that if I had posted the exact same thread in The Cave, this thread would be an already 20-page long pissup between the usual contenders.

...damn...

 

[moresound]

........................................................
I Like Money

 

[moresound]

I reckon that if I had posted the exact same thread in The Cave, this thread would be an already 20-page long pissup between the usual contenders.

...damn...

YUP ....but I like it here in the noob forum.
It keeps it civil.

 

[TeyshaBlue]

Back around 1982, I wrote a tune with the line, "There's no tape, it's on chip. Everything is programmed, hip". The tune was about playing blues in 2062. Fuck...I only missed that by 60 years or so.

I'm placing bets on fredrick's prediction. Latency can be tamed by either dedicated backbones or increasing use of cloud computing. Probably be some other solution I aint' even thought of.

 

[kcearl]

people will make their own music more and more....evently we will make all our own music...it will go through a period of darkness before a new movement of artistry and culture shall be born from the flames of corporate mainstream bullshit... like a Pheonix!!!

 

[moresound]

people will make their own music more and more....evently we will make all our own music...it will go through a period of darkness before a new movement of artistry and culture shall be born from the flames of corporate mainstream bullshit... like a Pheonix!!!

Wow! that's deep KC.

 

[mshilarious]

Ultimately there is one measure of latency that cannot be improved: the speed of light. If you are jamming with somebody in Singapore, you have to have at least 50msec latency, and that's only if you had a straight pipe there. Go to satellite transmission or a more typical land/sea line, and it will have to be longer.

So you will have to select jamming partners that are reasonably close, probably within 3,000 miles.

 

[Villain S Deeds]

Analog Revival!!!

There'll be a big, clunky-looking Portastudio that records 16 tracks onto a VHS cassette. I'll be really freakin' heavy and be built right in to a big suitcase.

 

[Chibi Nappa]

As drummers will be obsolete, we'll need a new target for jokes...

How can you tell if a drummer is at your door?

The knocking speeds up...and he doesn't know when to come in.



If a drummer is at your door, how do you get him to leave?

Pay him for the pizza.