{"id":111,"date":"2012-08-16T13:14:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T12:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oscillicious.com\/blog\/?p=111"},"modified":"2012-08-16T13:14:58","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T12:14:58","slug":"the-trouble-with-daws-recording","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oscillicious.com\/blog\/the-trouble-with-daws-recording\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trouble with DAWs: Recording"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before I do a real follow-up to my last post about the traditional DAW workflow<\/a>, I wanted to take another stab at the workflow diagram (below).<\/p>\n

This time, I’ve outlined what I’ll call the “recording workflow”. You start with the same boring setup procedure that you have with the regular “mostly MIDI” workflow, and then you need to hook up your instrument or MIDI keyboard for recording. (“Where’s my USB cable?”, “Did I plug my guitar into the right jack?”….)<\/p>\n

After that, you end up in this new songwriting cycle<\/strong> where jam out an idea on your keyboard or instrument, and try to record it. This is usually pretty fun, but I don’t think it’s nearly as fun as it could be. There’s a lot of micromanagement going on when you do this, which I’ve tried to emphasize in the diagram.<\/p>\n

When I try to play something that I want to record, it usually takes me a few tries to get it right. In a DAW, this means a lot of jogging back and forth with the transport, arming recording, waiting for the down beat, and trying to play the melody again. Did I mess it up? Darn, I have to switch back to my mouse and keyboard, delete the bad MIDI part, and try again.<\/p>\n

It’s a lot of back and forth<\/strong>, and to be honest, I think half the reason it takes me 5 tries to record something is because I have to put down my synth every time I make a mistake, and it’s sort of difficult to really get a good groove going because of that. I lose my rhythm and timing, and have to frantically try to get it back within those next 4 count-in beats, otherwise… I have to repeat the cycle yet again.<\/p>\n

This entire workflow is modelled after recording on magnetic tapes<\/strong>. Except if you were recording on tape, you probably had a dude in a studio hitting record and rewinding for you.\u00a0It’s 2012. Does this recording workflow even make sense anymore?<\/strong><\/p>\n

What do you think about recording in DAWs? Is it just me?
\nLeave a comment<\/strong> and let me know how you think recording should work.<\/p>\n

\"How<\/a>

So easy, right?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before I do a real follow-up to my last post about the traditional DAW workflow, I wanted to take another stab at the workflow diagram (below). This time, I’ve outlined what I’ll call the “recording workflow”. You start with the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oscillicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oscillicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oscillicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oscillicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oscillicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.oscillicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/www.oscillicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oscillicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oscillicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oscillicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}