Georg R. Baumann
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But I am not here to convince anybody. I know that my view may seem to be biased.
No no, don't you worry about that for a second, I have come to know you as someone who does produce a very balanced view of things, and I am sure everyone here appreciates that big times!
I see it as a positive side effect that you are at SINAR hence can explain details and aspects to us in that context as well.
See, I was wondering about that Bejing Museum Project as well, when Klaus said, this is not the kind of picture he was talking about. I can imagine that they place the utmost importance on IQ in such a project in deed.
Btw. I did not have a chance to meet or talk to Rainer, hence had no idea about his music background, nice to hear! I too was influenced early by the likes of Stockhausen, RIP Karl Heinz, and was using my ATARI Computer and a simple sequencer to experiment with algorithmic compositions in the digital realm. If I look at my humble Rig today, I mean yeah, talk about an orchestra in a box, one of these days I'll get myself the entire Vienna Symphonic Library, the CUBE. I am sure he knows about that thingy as well.
Let me stick for a moment with music here, because there is a nice analogy in term of technology. Not sure whether this still is a topic passionatley debated, some engineers started to mix ITB (in the box), in opposite to an analog summing of channels via a console for example. So they used the digital mixer capabilities of the likes such as Sequoia, Nuendo and so on. Then a debate started about the quality difference between those ITB mixes and analog summing, whereby the apostels of analog claimed ITB to be cold and sterile in comparison to thei summing and final touch. - In my own opinion, this was often a severe exageration. - However, there was some truth in both sides of the camp as far as I am concerned.
For some music ITB was perfectly suitable, for other styles it was less ideal, still damn good though!
Today, I believe with the advance in CPU power and other related advantages in Software, the gap has been closed considerably in that resepct.
I would like to think, MFDB is where ITB was a few years ago, very powerful and convenient clearly pointing towards the future of things, just a few years later mixing in the box has improved massively and there is really no need anymore for analog style recording, it is a species on the brink of extinction to my best understanding.
Exactly this I personally think of Film as well, again, I might be wrong on that, but in a few years we might have difficulties to even obtain filmrolls, seriosuly, I could see that happen easily.
In Music there are still analog consoles around, very expensive ones, but talk to the manufacturers and ask them about their headaches. Mathematics has allowed to reproduce old gear in form of Software on a scale and precision that even surpasses the original in certain aspects, and it is getting better by the minute.
May be we are on the brink of seeing that in MFDB as well, or better, it has started already as Thierry demonstrated with this Example of Bejing.
With all respect, and while others here are much better informed than I am, this is my own conclusion I have drawn so far with the limitted experience and information I have at hand.
Then again, I am always open for new insights.