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What is a DAW?

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Digital Audio Workstation, like Cubase or Logic or Ableton or Pro Tools

Or Bitwig and Reaper if you're on Linux.

or LMMS...

or Ardour...

or Renoise...

or Reddit...

Wait, Reddit is a DAW now?

The future is now, old man!

I only watched a few seconds, but there is a minor difference between a DAW and a sequencer. This looks like MIDI, and I didn't hear any real sounds, so I would call it a sequencer. Maybe there is actual recorded sounds later in the video?

Still nutty amazing.

The demo song plays a decent version of Take on Me by Aha! [0]

I have not enabled macros in an xlsx for years, but this was worth opening in safe place.

It really is a functional basic sequencer. So freaking cool! But I don't yet see the option for recording audio, so maybe not a DAW. But it does export an Ableton file. So cool.

[0] https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/18OkY-KUU6ewZOC1u-Djn...

Personally I prefer sequencer because that's what they were called back in the day. DAW to my British ears seems like a clunky Americanism that's sounds wrong both as D.A.W. and rhyming with door.

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