From Andrew McKnight’s website, originally August 28, 2020
"It’s hard to describe what this computer image means to me. For the non-musical, the display is a basic recording studio editor, with waveforms produced by recording each individual or voice on its own track. In the studio we edit, sweeten, balance and process each of them collectively into the stereo or 5.1 recordings you’re used to hearing.
Except that these waveforms were first captured as sound on reel-to-reel tape 31 years ago, well before the invention of many of the original tools that are now staples of even the most basic digital recording software…. [read the rest at Andrew’s website blog]