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In the 90s I worked in a high-end commercial music shop. 90% was all live... sometimes drums from an MPC, but sometimes Greg Errico, Steve Smith, et al. All super high-end session players and vocalists, with the occasional well-known guest singer working incognito. Never any straight-up sequencing... They played as a band, even if the drums were played by pressing a button on the MPC.
We tracked to 2" on an Otari MTR90-II, with a Trident TSM console. which later gave way for a Trident/MTA console with a ProControl and more and more leaning on ProTools.
I always loved the pace of commercial music production.. Help get the musicians going, track it, maybe an edit or some fx, mix it, print it, ship it, and then break for lunch with the clients before doing it again in the afternoon with a different client and different style of music. No postponement of decision-making in the production of the music ... Quick, fun, and good.
-dave
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