Powerful Dawless Recording Setup (For Any Genre)
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 22. 06. 2024
- Let's explore a powerful DAWless recording setup that works for any genre, featuring the Elektron Digitone Keys, Roland TR-6S, Dreadbox Typhon, and more! Learn how to ditch the DAW and get creative with hardware instruments, mixers, and effects processors. Discover the gear, workflow, and essential elements to build your own inspiring DAWless setup, perfect for capturing ideas and turning them into finished songs.
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00:00 The DAWLESS Flow
1:06 How DAWLESS Are You?
2:53 Recorder / Mixer
4:18 Sequencer & Polysynth
4:48 Drum Machine
6:20 Analog Monosynth
6:52 Guitar
7:42 Instrument Amp & Effects Processor
8:50 Drum Pad Percussion
9:49 Other Stuff
10:48 Multieffects Processor
11:04 Notepad! - Hudba
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What's the one piece of gear you'd add to your dream DAWless setup? Let me know and I'll try my best to help you integrate it!
That's a no-bullshit setup that makes a lot of sense.
Sold on the 1st sentence: Making music on a computer screen sucks! đ subbed
A lot of people scoff at the term DAWLESS.... but I wouldn't have it any other way! Always glad to see there's more of us friend đ
good stuff, looking forward to seeing more
I must have notebooks to write lyrics down, jot notes down on what things Iâve done to tracks, etc etc. Pen and paper will never stop being perfectly modern and futuristic. Itâs too practical.
I also use notebooks as an index to my idea recordings. Notebook pages have a "shape" to the writing that makes it quick to flick through to find something (plus I date the pages). Even when renamed, disk files don't have that and it soon becomes a meaningless blob. Files lose the context that a notebook gives.
@@oldunclemick I never throw them away. Iâll be stuck for lyrics or something, and Iâll stick my hand in the pile, and itâll be one from 1993 or something, and Iâll find something Iâd forgot about ages ago, and there it is. A ânewâ song idea, lol.
@@oldunclemick And I grok just exactly what you mean re âfilesâ. Computers die within 2 or 3 years, no matter how much âvirus protectionâ I have, and Iâve looked for a song I was involved in ten years ago, and Iâll realize that the only way I still âhaveâ it is because itâs on my YT channel, and itâs the only âcopyâ Iâll have of it.
@@gwugluud I am paranoid with my backups. A file doesn't truly exist unless it's in at least three places with one preferably off-site! đ
LOVE THE MODEL 12 SET UP!
Watching a video on a screen to learn how to not use a screen. Classic!
Haha, and yet most of the gear still has a (tiny) screen. Mind you, it's not the screen that kills the flow for me in a DAW, it's mostly the mouse đ
@@nedogled Agreed. Lately I've been wondering if it's possible and how to use a touch screen (not an iPad though I hate those things)
Great video, thank you
Such an unusual set-up, interesting and refreshing.
And I love "I won't have empty
mixer input staring me in the face and
catalyzing that nasty gear acquisition
fire that burns deep inside me"
which I will be using as a mantra for my daily meditations ;)
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it! That quote is straight out of real life haha đ
My set up.. tascam model24, roland td27 drum kit that takes 4 channels (two overheads, snare and kick). I go bass direct into the tascam, I use a couple guitar pedals and record my guitar through those, direct into the tascam (no amp)... double up the guitar tracks, panned hard left/right, then a 3rd guitar down the middle under the mix... loving my results. stereo export, drop the file in reaper for a little compression and push the volume, and done.
Excellent setup!
Thanks for sharing your setup!
Very cool peice of video that you produced. I really appreciate how intentional you were with the pacing and cadence in your speech.
Thanks again for sharing with me your corner of creativity and expression. These are special spaces for those of us who create.
Thanks! I've really put in quite a bit of effort into these videos... it's a process that's always improving, and it's cool when someone notices đ
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My productivity and enjoyment have skyrocketed since i ditched the daw and got a tascam model 12. I should have done it years ago.. i cannot emphasise enough how good the analogue preamps sound ! Im sticking with hardware đ
Absolutely! I do think it's this new wave of mixer/recorders (Model 12, Livetrak and Bluebox) that were the missing piece that made ditching the DAW an easy decision for me.
Definitely would like to know about your guitar's body shape. I just fiddle with a guitar. Recently switched from a single cut squire baritone to a schecter c-6 elite. Kind of miss the way the plain old tele body behaved.
Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it! Hope you like my other videos too đ
I use Digitone and Syntakt on a Yamaha mg06 mixer. Roland SE02 & SH01 are connected to Digitoneâs inputs for mixing and FX. A Minifreak is connected to Syntaktâs inputs.
I can attenuate the inputs differently for each pattern and store the settings. My Midi Router is Blokas MidiHub with four Inâs and Outâs. Both Elektrons can play each other and be played by the MiniFreak.
Iâm recording on Deluge and transfer via SD-card into a MacBook.
Thanks for sharing! That's a very capable setup indeed
Certainly the best way to l got a very bad back with using computer recording DAWs all my stuff is placed within easy reach. I stand up for keyboard playing but not more than an hour, playing guitar sat up on my bed is best for me, guitar pedals loopers and mixers monitors drum machine iPads and multi track recorders all at arms length on shelves next to me, being comfortable is important when creating music. Good luck with your music â€â€
Thanks Paul! Absolutely, ergonomics are key for me too. If it hurts, I won't stand for it :) Especially when it comes to guitar. It's one of the reasons why I went headless for the guitar, and that will be my next video. Thanks for watching and good luck!
I still have my Korg D1600 multitracker but I prefer my MPC One as the centrepiece because it gives me a non-linear recording environment. Mostly these days I go direct to stereo and just master on the PC because I do a lot of my "mixing" before I hit Record.
Nice! The new MPCs are quite powerful, you can almost make the case they are DAWs :)
@@nedogled yes, they pretty well are. The benefit for me over a computer DAW is that editing is enough hassle that I only fix problems I actually hear whereas in a DAW I find myself fixing "problems" I think I am seeing and that usually takes the life out of the music as badly as quantization.
@@oldunclemick Absolutely agree on that! Music production seems to have swung from aural to visual in the past few decades in general...
The only thing that keeps me using a DAW (Reaper, the only DAW with a sensible setup) are the great plugins you can use, and the capabilities they have. But aesthetically, I very much prefer good multitracks, such as the Boss BR-1600 I have. I began with a Teac 4-track cassette in 1981, and having a way to lay multiple tracks seemed really wild then. It caused a lot of good times.
That's true, there are a lot of great plugins in DAWs, but the temptation to buy new ones was always breathing down my neck when I was a full time DAW user :) I haven't heard of the Boss BR-1600 before, thanks for bringing that to my attention! I'll actually be publishing the video about my mixer/recorder tomorrow, so stay tuned for that one. It's a continuation of what the mighty Teac started all those decades ago!
I had a BR 1600 for a little while and had to sell it. Can you use it as a DAW controller at all? I know it's getting on a bit but I really like it. Otherwise I'll have to go for the Tascam model he uses in this video (I started off on a Tascam tape 4 track. So much fun)... thanks.
@@titmusspaultpaul5 Whenever I try to get into the deeper features with a DAW, it gets convoluted and confusing, and if I think Iâm in the mode to do what I want to attempt, then I engage it, either nothing happens at all, or very strange things happen which destroys my project. I think it likely that via some sort of MIDI setup, what you described could be done, but I really donât know, Iâm afraid. Sorry I couldnât help you. If you googled about, thereâs every kind of instructional things out there, just a more obscure thing such as that may take some effort in order to happen upon. Maybe state it directly âWill a Boss BR-1600 work as a controller within a DAWâ, and there will be something.
I bought a Tascam 32sd. Not sure if that is considered DAWless, but no computer screen.
Definitely. I think it's the infinite possibilities of the DAW that mark the key difference from recording to a mixer, which is much more straightforward in comparison, but also limited (which can sometimes be a good thing). That, and the mouse and keyboard interface which I never got along with for composing on a DAW.
Fostex DMT-8, a couple of ADATS and a BRC. Mackie 1604. Master to CD, 3 head Cassette deck, or Hi-Fi VCR. Sequencing with MMT-8 or a 486 computer running Cakewalk 5.0 for DOS. All synths are hardware synths. A nice mix of vintage digital and analog. I refuse to subscribe e to anything, and all modern DAWS are subscription based.
Wow, that's a very nice old school setup :)
1. Decide you want to spend less time in front of a screen
2. Watch hours and hours od videos about DAWless setups and gear reviews
3. Narrow down to a few polysynths and research the crap out of the
4. impulse buy a totally different poly without any research at all
5. go to 2
Haha, the G.A.S. Wormhole is real! I almost impulse bought a Novation Peak when I was thinking about polysynths, but I'm glad I held back and went for the Digitone Keys instead :)
@@nedogled Yep, and if you're a multi-instrumentalist, the wormhole is endless
I would add an Elektron Rytm and a Microcosm from Hologram đ«
Excellent choice! Rytm seems to be the endgame for drum machines, it just takes up a bit more space than I can afford right now :D The Microcosm seems like an effect that crosses over into being an instrument... I'm debating between getting that or the Strymon Nightsky.
@@nedogled funny I was just debating over Nightsky and Meris merc x