Okay, well, M-Audio’s new approach to helping musicians record will never completely get rid of these incredibly complicated and, for newbies, nerve-wracking , huge chunks of software. Nothing so intricate, usually quite expensive, and requiring manuals running into the hundreds of pages could ever completely vanish from this planet, could they? After all, that would be too much of a miracle!
You can read about it in MusicRadar or follow the extracted video link below, but beginning this fall M-Audio will release its latest generation of controller keyboards with various key counts, called the A.I.R. Minis. They’re even nicer looking than the current selection, and I’m thinking I may want to upgrade. They’re so purty.
BUT, perhaps just as nifty, they all ship with some new software. No, not bundled with some hobbled version of someone’s DAW, as you can find on practically every piece of audio junk these days; these will come with software that supposedly achieves much the same results as one can sometimes get with a DAW — that is, something recorded after using it. Better still, the greatest idiot and computer-unschooled of musicians is assured good results without the beating of heads against a wall.
Wow, huh? Now, even non-nerd, technically ignorant gee-tar pickers can record without stressing those few remaining brain cells. . . . or at least that’s the claim.
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BTW, this software was already demoed at the Summer NAMM show and, yes, it works. Uh . . . they’re calling the software ‘IGNITE.’
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