10 Things You NEED to know before Building a Dawless Synthesizer Setup

My tip is you need two 303s. :-)

How long did it take you to build up all that awesome gear?

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I don't care about paying more for dawless setup. All this login to do this and signup to do that is totally unacceptable. Companies are more interested in getting your info for spam then they are promoting music creation.

To all this, I would add a good dynamic microphone and a vocoder or vocal fx box, also delay and reverb pedals to use as aux fx on a cheap analog mixer. I just record the stereo signal to my android phone or tablet via a class compliant usb audio interface. You can use even more hardware units (expensive!) for mastering or just master your track in a DAW (much cheaper) to make it a shiny masterpiece... 😊

The MPC one, live, and x are perfect for bridging the gap between hardware and software music production

I have 6+ synths and still haven’t gotten everything out of them together lol. BUT I NEED MOOOOORE

I havent gone "dawful" yet. Had an Atari and an Amiga for a short time (bought used after their time was already over.)

Great points in this video. I know a few people who don't use a computer at all, and they all have something in common - they dislike computers in general, and none of them understand computers enough to operate them trouble-free. This is a HUGE factor. Computer nerds develop background skills that they're not even aware of. Simple things like a backup schedule aren't obvious to non-nerds. I see multiple comments in this thread about running into issues on a computer and giving up. Not everyone wants to spend countless hours mastering the dark art of troubleshooting Windows issues.

Great explanation! I have a DAWLESS setup and recording into a zoom h6 recorder. I then send mp3 files to my friends. What would DAWLESS equipment would you recommend for me to master my audio especially if it's going online or to be pressed onto vinyl?

What's the device in the upper left of the title pic?

I'm dawless all the equipment I have is a Yamaha DJ x a multi track recorder and a sequencer ...I sometimes make beats on an old Xbox music program or even band lab but it's not essential...the DJ x has a six track step sequencer and a six track real time sequencer .I have six channels on the multi track can always bounce tracks if I need too .I only use the Xbox program cause it has a pretty good sampler on it...but I hate daws

You really nailed at the start "tired of looking at screens"

You are ticking many points that made me starting electronic music dawless. I do stare at a screen all day for a living, tried daws since long time, I just can't stand keep to it after hours even if they are really powerful to do anything. And more cost efficient as you said (and by far).
You're also right on the point the fun part is very important, especially to the hobbyist of music making.
But to me it's a journey rather than a goal, you don't have to get everything on the first day you want to start making music. No need for a 24-track mixer or super expensive synths to get started.
Maschine looks very appealing to me at this point, as well as the Akai MPC One ! They are the hybrid stuff that perhaps will allow me to improve my productions, still without sitting at the computer and mouse, and keeping the synths bleepings and the knobs to play with =)

This video is EXACTLY what I've been looking for!!! Thank you so much for this.

My honest opinion is that DAW’s have ruined music. I wish they never would have been invented.

I know someone at work who spent $16,000+ USD on a gaming setup. Part of me wishes I was that loose with my money.

What a nice Cycles tune!

What's some ways to record and playback on the fly chord changes (playback midi) in a dawless setup? Thanks

Bought a Moog 37, bought a module: sampler and I bought a mixer... Now I'm having trouble with figuring out how to connect it to my soundcard and or if I should replace the soundcard with the mixer.. This was another problem I ran into. I don't know anything, I don't even know what to look for when I need to problem solve lol.
But I can play my synth and the sampler in FL studio on a mono input.. yay.. what a messy way to play lol
I'm not sure I got any closer to solving the issue, but I really enjoyed your video and It had allot of good points! thank you and god bless