Adam and I were having a conversation today about operating under self-imposed constraints. I do this sort of thing all the time to keep making music interesting. (e.g. "Today, I'm going to write a song using only instruments made in Norway" or some such ridiculous thing.) Specifically, we were talking about getting away from using the computer as a recording medium, an operation in which it usually becomes an instrument as well. What I was wondering is thus: are there any readers out there that specifically use an 8- or 16-track analog tape deck, then dump the tracks to DAW for mixing any more? This seems like a rather refreshing manner in which to work, and I'd be surprised if there aren't several readers that do just that. I'm pondering methodology; my comment to Adam was that this would be a singularly excellent manner to record if you did ambient music, especially if it was improvisational in nature.

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