But since Karajan at the latest, digital techniques have been used during recording, in order to balance any incompetencies the players might have when playing their instruments, but also the conductors incompetencies, by inserting new passages and digitally editing in the rest both, entire orchestra passages as well as individual soloist's passages.
The fierce international competition in striving for the highest possible artistic perfection and technical precision, practically forces every orchestra to employ digital technology to produce CD recordings to achieve the highest degree of accuracy for the musical work. However, in classical music so far, only a maximum of 3% of such great digital possibilities which are today internationally available are being utilised.
The reason being that today's professionals had and have to do pioneering work to gain their knowledge in this field, and are no longer affordable for such enterprises as orchestra recordings on CD with the required number and range of digital instruments for the largest item is here not the orchestra and the conductor, but the digital recording team of experts and their complex range of instruments.
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