Alex Fraser
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Back in the 90's when I was a younger gent, music technology was expensive. I lusted after a number of unaffordable bits of gear, one of which was a Korg M1 costing four figures.
I've just downloaded the plugin version of the M1 on sale for the princely sum of $25. Including all the optional sound cards. This may not seem like much to someone who's younger, but for an older 40 something like me this is quite simply nuts.
Have we completely lost perspective on how much our tools are actually worth? For the same money that would buy a cheap workstation 20 years ago, composers can amass gigs of deeply sampled instruments and a clear surplus of storage and cpu power to actually use them. If you'd shown me todays typical starter rig back when I was wrestling with 1mb sample memory, I'd have chased you out of the room shouting "witchcraft!"
Rant over. Thoughts?
A
I've just downloaded the plugin version of the M1 on sale for the princely sum of $25. Including all the optional sound cards. This may not seem like much to someone who's younger, but for an older 40 something like me this is quite simply nuts.
Have we completely lost perspective on how much our tools are actually worth? For the same money that would buy a cheap workstation 20 years ago, composers can amass gigs of deeply sampled instruments and a clear surplus of storage and cpu power to actually use them. If you'd shown me todays typical starter rig back when I was wrestling with 1mb sample memory, I'd have chased you out of the room shouting "witchcraft!"
Rant over. Thoughts?
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