Distributed Digital Audio Recording

This is the first distributed music recording setup I’ve seen. The computer on the left (Dell XPS 13), with the 3 screens is the “tape deck” and the “conductor of the music.” The computer on the right (mac mini) converts my keyboard on the far left into MIDI signals and plays them on the mac, so they can be recorded on the “tape deck.”  I can do things like playing a track using Sam’s rack of spam with no plugging or unplugging of wires. That’s the take away from it I guess. My mixer converts the audio from the mac and rack into digital streams that I am recording on the “tape deck.” In some ways, this is very similar in function to the Fairlight computers that Kate Bush and Thomas Dolby used in the 1980’s to record their successful record albums. They used computers that cost $100,000 in 1980. My computers are far more advanced, because they are from the 21st century, and my system is modular, so that there are almost limitless possibilities for me to use as my “sound pallet” to paint my primordial “folk art” portraits of what my mind hears as music. I can literally transfer my feelings as a “song” that is more or less exactly the way I want it to be witnessed by any person who is willing to view my paintings as it were.There will be grapes and cheese plates with much rejoicing.