Spot On from Sigma Broadcast is a great example of a cart machine style interface – with loads of broadcast features and is widely used in UK TV and Radio – it has one Achilles heel – the usb dongle. A cart (a short loop of tape in a box) has a player with a very simple interface, big buttons, and is more like a sampler – big green go button but no fader – other than the fader on the mixing desk. A great example of a computer playlist for broadcast is CoolPlay – written by a BBC engineer and I see some guy has it running under Wine.īut then there is paradigm two – I want to fire (note the change from play to fire!) short bursts of audio, maybe repeat them certainly overlap them – now we enter cart world. You get most of these features with a playlist on a computer – you play stuff sequentially – you can move the order around – the only really tricky bit would be cross fades which in a lot of environments may not be necessary. Note your tape machines had a go button and a fader so you can control when audio is played and you can also do real time level adjustments. So for most docs you had an A roll and a B roll tape with alternate tapes on each roll. And generally if you wanted any sort of cross fade at any time you still needed two machines. And so you might for a fixed production like a feature or documentary – but in a fast moving news programme flexibility is key. Now you might ask why not just make a compilation tape of those reels and play it off one machine. A good tape op could get by with two machines but a typical radio studio had at least four or five. In the olden days you approached a ‘show’ with a collection of ‘tapes’, all on different spools – you had multiple expensive Swiss tape machines and your world was divided into the tape that is playing now and the tape that is playing next. And that is because there are already some paradigms for the context of what you want to achieve. Now the simple business of firing audio files from a set of keys is not quite as simple as it looks.
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The idea is that your computer keyboard (PC and Mac versions available) is a ready made interface and Soundplant allows you to load up a keymap with audio files on your computer and then fire them.
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And Marcel’s background in synths and samplers are relevant in the design of Soundplant as the software is a subtle and sophisticated sample player. Soundplant is the work of Marcel Blum, who is a musician, coder and curator, connoisseur and cataloguer and indeed purveyor of rare electronica. I ran into one the other day – the intriguingly entitled Soundplant. Let me know if you need anything else.The internet is 95% bollocks – literally as well as metaphorically but there are still gems of great price hidden in that wonderful 5%. These are just some suggestions based on the fact that you seem to be looking for something portable/affordable. I personally use the innexpensive 2018 Mac Mini and there’s the even less expensive 2020 Mac Mini with Apple’s new M1 chip. I only wrote the article to entertain the idea, but it’s only possible using one of these online DAWs like Soundtrap, Bandlab, etc… That doesn’t mean it won’t change in the future but even if it did, Apple will always have the lead when it comes to performance for these types of applications. If you’re serious about sound recording/music production though, I wouldn’t even consider Chromebooks. Hypothetically, even if you would purchase the best Chromebook… You’d be paying as much as say, one of these Dell XPS laptops ( review here) and the performance would still be WAY under.
You’ll experience horrible audio latency at best and at worst, it probably won’t even connect to your audio interface. The major problem with Chromebooks is the lack of drivers/support for these high-demanding audio applications.
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It may be possible to install Audacity/Reaper on Chromebook, but that doesn’t mean you’ll get results.
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