Democratization of Recording

The emerging musician middle class just got a new tool to assist going on their own. A new software tool titled ‘Direct Note Access’ will be available Fall ’08 for the price of $399. What Direct Note Access allows you to do is to pick out a single note within the cacophony of a song, and manipulate that one particular note. Say you sing off key for one note out of an entire song full of multiple tracks of guitars, drums, bass, and background vocals. Direct Note Access will allow you to go in and perfect that one note.

These are amazing tools for your everyday musician. We are now a few years into the ability to purchase a $500 computer, Pro Tools software and a nice microphone and record your first album as a band. There is no longer a need for a label to record that first demo cd (which easily can run over $10,000). The Direct Note Access is another tool that will help make albums sound more professional.

On the other hand, I fear the ‘perfection’ of music. Most of what makes a great song are the little idiosyncrasies within the song. We’ve all heard the almost perfect studio recordings from bands and have later seen the same bands in concert. The live shows are so much more real and human. I don’t condone bands singing out of tune, but I also don’t want to hear a song so perfect that you know it’s not real.

For more on Digital Note Access, click here.

Stay tuned,
Erik
erikrostad.com