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For me it was approaching the DAW as a digital tape machine that worked for my flow. I run Ableton, but only record audio in from my looper and instruments. An
by krnlpnc 4y ago
For me it was approaching the DAW as a digital tape machine that worked for my flow. I run Ableton, but only record audio in from my looper and instruments. And just use the middle edition thats $300ish
I still haven't embraced the bottomless pit of software instruments, but do use a few nice plug in FX.
A lot of my ideas come up from looping, and the DAW is basically just “rolling tape” to capture that jam in a linear way. Maybe with some adjustments afterwards
- brudgers 4y agoI get that. I guess I wound up toward the dawless end of the spectrum because I didn’t buy an iPad or another laptop…electronic music requires hardware either way I think. Where I am at right now, it helps to remove software from the picture. If the DAW solved audio and midi signal routing, then it would be a friction for friction trade off. But the daw doesn’t eliminate cables and configuration…VST’s excepted. I have a Tascam DP 006 and the QX5 for recording. The QX will loop, transpose, and rechannel MIDI too. Basically, I can do everything I think I want to do without a laptop. That could easily change of course. Dawless is an engineering design choice not an ideological hill I would die on.