Simon Posford Interview from 2016

[acid being]

https://backstage-secrets.com/blog/a-man-who-opened-up-a-whole-new-dimension-in-music.html

The most amazing factoid in this one for me was this:

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BS: By the way, what is the average number of tracks in your songs?
SP: About 180-320 usually.

My DAW starts to choke if I have more than about 40 tracks active at once. I wonder if he is having to pre-record a lot of those to audio, as 180 software synths running in parallel would just be insane, right?

[Oopie]

But he didn't mention "at once". It's a total number.

[acid being]

13 minutes ago, Oopie said:

But he didn't mention "at once". It's a total number.

On my DAW I can deactivate tracks but I can't automatically activate them partway through playback. I can work around it and it doesn't hinder the final recording, but it does mean if I have too many tracks I cannot audition everything in realtime because there would be too many plugins running.