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A DAW is near essential for making EDM. It's actually quite cheap compared to the instruments you need for other music styles.

Sure you can make EDM with more limited means, but a DAW opens up basically everything.

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And many think that for art more options is better, however the greatest works were done with huge limitations. Beatles 4 track, Bladerunner no CGI to name 2.

If by "everything" you mean better production quality, sure, but I doubt you'd do your best sound-design work laying down on your couch with your airpods.

I think the only thing this enables is for you to "finish" your songs on the ipad itself, which is not the game changer the OP is saying it is.

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