How music got to this point.

Digital and A.I. technology.

My first time in a digital recording studio.

I remember learning about digital recording sometime in the late 1990’s. I was hanging out with my buddies band, going to their rehearsals, learning their songs, doing roadie stuff to help them out at gigs. They even had me sit in on a few recording sessions at a local studio here in Orlando. This was the first time I ever heard about something called D.A.T.

At the time, Digital Audio Recording to me seemed almost self-defeating. How do you encode audio tracks digitally to analog tape? Well, in my own ignorance, digital recording to analog tape has been a way to store large amounts of data for computers for decades. Remember the old pictures of computers that took up entire rooms? Remember the reel-to-reel tapes they used to store the massive amounts of data? D.A.T. recording was the same thing, only much more precise.

I remember hearing how clear the tracks were and how easily things could be fixed audibly on the computer. This to me, was a glimpse into the future of digital recording. In my own naivety, I never imagined that one day, not too far into the future, digital recording would be easily manipulated and easily stolen through file sharing programs, like Napster - and musicians and record companies would lose massive amounts of money in this transition from the antiquated analog world into the digital revolution.

The monster grew too big, too quickly. The digital revolution changed everything, and nobody was prepared for what would ultimately happen to the music world. Now, we face Artificial Intelligence as the next revolution. Where do you think music will go?