Intelligent Music Production

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IMP Interfaces

“I automate whatever can be automated to be freer to focus on those aspectsof music that can’t be automated. The challenge is to figure out which iswhich.”

Laurie Spiegel in Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner, Women Composers And MusicTechnology in the United States: Crossing the Line, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006.

As users of music production tools, we interact with both hardware and software devices through a range of user interfaces (UIs). Over the years, these interfaces have remained largely consistent and de facto standards have emerged. For instance, almost all mainstream mixing consoles have vertical channel strips, with columns of rotary faders that control parameters such as input sensitivity, equalization and pan, followed ...