I realized jusnow that most of my music is made live in VCVRack. Is it still DAWless if it's software? #vcvrack #modularsynth #Dawless - ThreadSky

cornwarning.com • 134 days ago

I realized jusnow that most of my music is made live in VCVRack. Is it still DAWless if it's software?
#vcvrack #modularsynth #Dawless

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chyllo.bsky.social•134 days ago

If you're not using it as a plugin within a DAW then I'd say yeah, you're still DAW free. But all of that no DAW/"in the box"/DAWfull splitting hairs is kinda silly. Most people who are DAWless end up on their DAW doing final mix or edits later anyway. Do what feels good man!

cornwarning.com•134 days ago

My problem with #dawless as people usually do it is that I can't stand trying to keep several different user interfaces in my head at the same time. A Volca is different from an #Electron instrument & they're both different from hardware modular, which is tangled mess of cables.

cornwarning.com•134 days ago

Much respect to the people who can make compelling music that way. I agree that a DAW can constrain you andake it hard to play live. Even Ableton live.

cornwarning.com•134 days ago

Ableton Live is built for playing live, but really what you're doing is triggering preprogrammed clips and working FX. In Rack I can make "from zero" performances where I'm actually improvising all the notes and sculpting sounds.

cornwarning.com•134 days ago

Short of learning to play a traditional instrument it feels the most intuitive approach.

category.horse•133 days ago

I’ve spent much of the last two years figuring out my relationship with DAW when making everything in AUM on iOS. It’s a mixer and AU host, but it doesn’t have any arrangement/timeline. So I’ve tried handing off to Cubasis to freeze and export into Cubase, which is a semi-effective balance of (1/3)

category.horse•133 days ago

…DAW and no DAW. Less DAW rather than DAWless. This is not broken for me except that I never wind up back in front of the computer to finish those things. So I’ve now got a few timeline options as AUs in AUM, which is cognitively heavy, but something I actually engage with. (2/3)

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