DNB Sketch (DAWnting)
By jimmac on February 9, 2024 1:05 pm
The older I get, the more I enjoy tedious things 
. For the longest of times, I knew that a DAW would give me the overview of a tune and an iterative workflow I would enjoy. But time and time again I would launch Ableton or Bitwig and just get frustrated by these random buttons and hitting the wall with every single task I knew is accomplishable, but just couldn't do it.
Until the 100th time. I finally have a functional Bitwig setup on my workstation, with a couple of functional software synths and no fear of committing a clip into audio file (called 'bouncing' in DAW-speak for some reason).
Here's my first arrangement where I have successfully created a "complete" track, using internal FM4 and Polymer synths as well as venture into the land of VSTs, I mean CLAPs (checking out Vital and Helm). My super shallow knowledge now includes vague understanding of device chains, automation lanes, LFOs (can't believe that's how you do UI in 2024), arpeggiator and midi clip editor.
Things I do yet know is some sort of ducking/side chaining, importing M8 stems without stretching (I found a global sample handling setting, but I'm still looking for per-event mode change), live recording my elektron boxes and, oh, the whole music theory thing.
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kick-ass ending too, left me wanting more, but feeling perfectly content at the same time 
