Flintpope
Sound designer and seller of BRILLO
Announcing a DAW-less recording experiment...
This is recorded and overdubbed without a DAW, without tape, without editing. I tried to free myself of the controlling elements of "editing freedom" by playing a tailor-made layered Kontakt instrument in one take into Quicktime, dropping this recording into Audacity, playing back this take on same then overdubbing live with Pigments 3.
Only then did I do some sound editing to remove an extra loud click on the fade and then passed it through the Landr engine to beef it up.
This process requires Soundflower, a tiny software DL that allows the computer to record itself. You just have to do a minor set-up in the prefs of each software instrument beforehand and away you go.
For full details of the process, if you are interested, please go (broken link removed)
And a warning for haters of ARTY VIDEOS... here is the video version lol.
Doubtless some people will think "why bother if it sounds so rough?" but this is is exactly what I want. I have found myself disappearing into hours of re-takes, tweaking compression chains, micro-managing note positions etc when using Ableton (or Logic, or Bitwig) and losing sight of the initial musical inspiration.
Anyone else feel the same about DAWs? Anyone else long for some freedom?
This is recorded and overdubbed without a DAW, without tape, without editing. I tried to free myself of the controlling elements of "editing freedom" by playing a tailor-made layered Kontakt instrument in one take into Quicktime, dropping this recording into Audacity, playing back this take on same then overdubbing live with Pigments 3.
Only then did I do some sound editing to remove an extra loud click on the fade and then passed it through the Landr engine to beef it up.
This process requires Soundflower, a tiny software DL that allows the computer to record itself. You just have to do a minor set-up in the prefs of each software instrument beforehand and away you go.
For full details of the process, if you are interested, please go (broken link removed)
And a warning for haters of ARTY VIDEOS... here is the video version lol.
Doubtless some people will think "why bother if it sounds so rough?" but this is is exactly what I want. I have found myself disappearing into hours of re-takes, tweaking compression chains, micro-managing note positions etc when using Ableton (or Logic, or Bitwig) and losing sight of the initial musical inspiration.
Anyone else feel the same about DAWs? Anyone else long for some freedom?
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