Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: It's all so primitive

Leonardis opened this issue on Jun 26, 2004 ยท 29 posts


nomuse posted Sun, 27 June 2004 at 12:41 PM

The essential point is correct, tho. Poser is primitive. We're going to look back five years from now and not know whether to laugh or cry about the incredibly tedious, finicky work we had to do to make the thing work. As a point of reference, when the music for Doctor Who was first composed, the guy who did it had to; 1) Set the dials on a brick-sized tone generator, 2) Adjust record levels and roll it to recording tape, 3) Take a razor blade and snip out each note, using ruler and eyeball to get the length of the tape (and thus the length of the note,) right, then glue the little bits back together with individually cut bits of splice tape (anyone here ever splice tape the old way, with the razor cross-cut, the buffing, the final trim cuts? Not fun.) 4) Run several of these tapes at one time, synchronized (perhaps he used a Moviola?), to do what we call "bouncing" from one set of tracks to another set of tracks, 5) Let's not even go into what it took to add reverb! These days you switch on your forty-buck Radio Shack keyboard and start playing. Or you can do it with free software that is almost as easy to use.