The early ones were clumsy and experimental and pretty awful.
By the early 80s, the Digital Audio Workstation, or DAW, was on the drawing board.
And Then One Day…Ĭomputer power was increasing, and more things were becoming possible. We were not going to go very far like that and get any sort of worthwhile product at all. Many of us could only afford the bad ones, which made us sound worse than we were, if that were possible.
There were good ones, bad ones, and then there were the pros. If we wanted to record, then we had no choice.