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<<<<<<<<<Dec, mate, you're cutting your own throat here. >>>>>>>>

It has to be understood that the Internet is now the greatest archive in the world [outside traditional libraries].  So, many will warn that one has to be extremely careful what one posts anywhere on the Net.  We are. 

We only abide by the ASA [Advertising Standards Authority] tenets that anything written in the public domain should be plain, clear and not misleading.

That item should be recognised as an archive article dated and relevant to that time... You quote the date yourself, which you must have found easily. Therefore of interest to those researching that time  -  or simply interested in operating in that way [just as some folk like guitars dated 1964].

Apart from the date, usually, but not always, given on the visible web page, any page on our sites can be dated easily in the professional, accepted, industry standard way.  Simply click on 'view' ... Then 'source' and scroll to the end of the header shown by: </head> ... You then, on a professionally laid out page, get the exact details of the page... For instance our latest article www.makehits.co.uk/art023.htm

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This is excellent information for historical purposes and realistically should be included on all throughout the Internet...sadly it isn't. 

I am a member of S.P.A.B. [Society for Preservation of Ancient Buildings] and we operate in the same way....any extension to a building should be easily datable.

We could go through each page and update it, or simply delete the pages as they become 'past their sell-by date', but from the historical sense we feel it is invaluable to have that historical content.  For instance, it amazes us to see the references to the size of the computers we used, and the results we got.

<<<<<<The 24.02.02 item is a puff for the Atari 1040, even then only available second-hand. >>>>>>>

Absolutely.....

And you would be shocked at the number of top studios who still love Atari .... I do!  Our latest album is totally Atari ... I love it.  So stable, so accurate, easy to use and reliable.  For certain type of work it is far more convenient than the latest Pro Tools [which we also use.]  We use many programmes, each with it's own quirks and limitations.  In the varied work we do, we use whatever we feel is the most efficient for the job in hand.  I shall be using Sound Forge when I finish this bunch of Emails.

<<<<<Hardly relevant to setting up a home studio today, which is unlikely to be MIDI-based.>>>>>>>>

Don't know where you got that idea.  The theories, modus operandi are precisely and exactly the same ... save that VST type systems allow live recording.  Atari plus hard disc recording is much more powerful [our preferred system for multi vocal overdubs....far more efficient than any other]

It has to be understood that 95% of the music guys who get in touch with me are skint...stony broke.  So, I feel that it is tremendous news that I can show them a way of getting a powerful, working studio, up and running for peanuts.  Provided they can stand the jibes of their minted music friends with the all singing, all dancing home set-ups [usually with Zero success, by the way]

 As you quote, we are: "dedicated to giving you the very best at the very lowest cost"

It is also invaluable in teaching them the rudiments of a modern day, midi based studio.  Much like learning to drive in a clapped out mini rather than a Bentley Continental.  The driver ends up much more skilled.

<<<<<<<And you're pretending to understand MIDI, having quite recently proved you don't!>>>>>

I normally refuse to answer vitriolic comment as you have just made, but in this instance I will.  I will make an exception.

I have been working and making an awful lot of money in the Midi domain since 1984 when I first saw a Midi driven studio producing Hi-Energy Gay dance music in Hanley, West Midlands in UK.  It amazed me and I couldn't wait to get up and running with Midi equipment.

I never put myself out as an expert on the scientific workings of Midi but I understand and use Midi to it's fullest potential every day.

I do understand that it was never designed to work to the extremes we expect today ... That is about the only scientific element necessary to know when using it.

Finally, it is worth considering that you may be suffering from what I call 'brand name-i-tis'.  I run across this all the time, particularly in live situations.

Our concert rig and the sound produced from it shocks music guys who suffer from 'brand name-i-tis'.  They want to see D & B , Meyer, Nexo etc.

They can only look at the brand name and make judgement before the rig is fired up.  They don't understand that the rig is designed with 40 years of experience at the sharp end of recording and live music...it is also set up with that knowledge and run by a sound engineer who I consider to be one of the Top Three in the world .... The brand?  Practically irrelevant.  Although we do use the most respected brand name in power amps.  Massively powerful, by the way. 

You see, it's the mix and the created sound that counts... Not the brands.

So, would you be able to tell which finished music was created by Atari or by Sonar?  With the right producer in place, I doubt it very much.

Regards

DEC [Cluskey]
mailto:dec@makehits.co.uk

Just released:- "57 Secrets of a Hit Record" ...  - 260 pages of the Secrets plus the CDrom Analysis Software and Audio CD to ensure that your music is a Potential Hit  www.makehits.com/57Secrets.htm
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Regards

Dec 

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