Thanks to new technologies, it has become much easier and quicker for both artists and amateurs to record their music.
Traditionally, record producers have numerous roles in the recording process. among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. Their roles can be compared to those of film directors. Usually, there is also a whole team of people involved in these processes, which take days to complete to the standard of album tracks.
Today however, there is a huge amount of high-quality, low-priced software that has been designed to enable amateurs at home to be able to produce their own music. These programmes include Cubase, Garageband and Logic. This means that, rather than a large team of professionals, the effect can be created by just one producer at home. This is contributed to the rise in emerging artists; they create the music at home, and the put it immediately on Myspace. However, this does then produce copyright issues if they don't first gain rights before publishing. The combination of the internet, where creativity is a two-way flow, and home software like Cubase change the way in which the music industry functions.
The way in which music production has changed also applies to the types of music being professionally recorded. Thanks to the advent of portable recording devices, live music recording has become much more cost-effective and therefore more often are tracks recorded live rather than plugged in and layered up, also meaning that a lot of time is also saved.
