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In music production, during the 80's and 90's there was a gradual switch from hardware studio equipment to DAW software, as computers became more powerful. But
by mastazi 5y ago
In music production, during the 80's and 90's there was a gradual switch from hardware studio equipment to DAW software, as computers became more powerful.
But in recent years, many musicians decided come back to stand-alone hardware devices, there is even a term for this: it's a "dawless" setup.
The most commonly mentioned reason for this is "I want a distraction free environment", or something along the lines of "I don't want to create music on the same device where I receive social media notifications".
To me, devices like reMarkable are basically responding to the same need, but in a different field (note taking as opposed to music production).
I wonder if this could become a more general trend, where people at least partially move away from general purpose devices.