By Fre$hBreath
Mon May 25, 2020 3:25 am
...the less I care for my DAWs
Logic, Studio One, FL Studio, Ableton Live, LUNA, and Reason are cool and all, but I find just using my MPC X with my collection of synthesizers is all I need to make music.
The Reason Rack Plugin has made the DAW portion useless to me, I'm not excited for Logic's new sampling and clip launch features, and Ableton Live has always been extremely overrated to me, and I'm completely over FL Studio, none of these DAWs compare to the workflow of the MPC X to me.
There's no reaching for a mouse in most cases, I can easily access what I want straight from my MPC X and just focus on playing and programming without having to look at my computer screens all the time.
As someone who started making music in the '80s long before the DAW came along, and then became a prisoner of the DAW for 20 years, I finally feel free and strangely enough I notice this is becoming evident in the new music I'm creating.
I'm still creating beats, but they are more musical and humanistic rather than robotic and computerized. I'm focusing more on performing my musical parts rather than laying them because I'm listening more to the MPC X's metronome rather than watching the computer screen.
The kids today call it DAWless which always makes me laugh because there was no such thing as the DAW in the '80s when I made my first records, to me this is just creating music to me, the way it should be.
I don't know about you guys, but I love my MPC X and it's been a lot more fun and easier since 2.8 came along. I'm happy with the MPC X workflow, just happy...
Logic, Studio One, FL Studio, Ableton Live, LUNA, and Reason are cool and all, but I find just using my MPC X with my collection of synthesizers is all I need to make music.
The Reason Rack Plugin has made the DAW portion useless to me, I'm not excited for Logic's new sampling and clip launch features, and Ableton Live has always been extremely overrated to me, and I'm completely over FL Studio, none of these DAWs compare to the workflow of the MPC X to me.
There's no reaching for a mouse in most cases, I can easily access what I want straight from my MPC X and just focus on playing and programming without having to look at my computer screens all the time.
As someone who started making music in the '80s long before the DAW came along, and then became a prisoner of the DAW for 20 years, I finally feel free and strangely enough I notice this is becoming evident in the new music I'm creating.
I'm still creating beats, but they are more musical and humanistic rather than robotic and computerized. I'm focusing more on performing my musical parts rather than laying them because I'm listening more to the MPC X's metronome rather than watching the computer screen.
The kids today call it DAWless which always makes me laugh because there was no such thing as the DAW in the '80s when I made my first records, to me this is just creating music to me, the way it should be.
I don't know about you guys, but I love my MPC X and it's been a lot more fun and easier since 2.8 came along. I'm happy with the MPC X workflow, just happy...
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