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Discussions about running live music setups without the use of a Digital Audio Workstation. Dawless does not mean computerless.

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General question about a DAWless setup. (waveform.social)

submitted 1 year ago by porphyry@waveform.social to c/dawless@waveform.social

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Hey everyone, I've been using hardware synths to write music for a little while and I've heard of dawless setups around and I sort of get the gist of it. My question here is how do you/do you record songs to be able to post in some other way or is using a daw as just a recording step not mutually exclusive with a dawless setup?

I guess to sum up, does dawless only really refer to what is controlling everything or is it truly never using a daw?

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[–] needssleep@waveform.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For the most part, it's about performance. The idea is to get off a screen and into a more tactile workspace.

Your average person isn't going to have the financial capacity to afford equipment that can do mastering outside of a computer.

So, some folks use a stand alone recorder, some use their MPC. I happen to have a mixer that can record channels. I take my instrument outputs and put them into a DAW, eventually.

[–] daguito81@waveform.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that a tascam model 12 by any chance?

[–] needssleep@waveform.social 1 points 1 year ago

It is!