Virtual instruments let you fill out the mix, and digital audio can be edited in a much more forgiving manner than on tape. A simple, $5 iPad app now easily takes the place of my old Portastudio-only now, recordings can be sent straight to the masses via Soundcloud or Facebook instead of through hand-copied cassettes. And although the Portastudio’s restrictions were clear in its modest display (and the fact that I was producing music on a cassette), the bare-bones tool was all my friends and I needed to break into home recording.įast-forward 10 years later, and there’s no arguing that technology has helped make things easier (and much cheaper) on aspiring musicians. It was a time when Digital Audio Workstations like Protools and Cubase were becoming recording mainstays, which not only made small, physical devices like the Portastudio affordable, but immediately marked them as outdated. In 2002, I bought my first Tascam Portastudio-a clunky, navy-blue four-track cassette recorder-for around $150.
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