What is a DAW?
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What is a DAW?
Some say it's the software like Live / Logic etc
Some say it's the whole system ie Software + PC + Soundcard
Seems like option 1 is what most people think / will answer.
But option 2 makes more sense to me.
So which is it?
Some say it's the whole system ie Software + PC + Soundcard
Seems like option 1 is what most people think / will answer.
But option 2 makes more sense to me.
So which is it?
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Re: What is a DAW?
I think it's past your bedtime.
They're both the same answer anyways. Audio software isn't gonna be much use to you without a soundcard and a computer.
They're both the same answer anyways. Audio software isn't gonna be much use to you without a soundcard and a computer.
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Re: What is a DAW?
just the software - When people ask which 'Digital Audio Workstation' you are on they want to know logic/live/cubase etc - not what other gear you have...
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Re: What is a DAW?
+1, all you need to know is what it stands for really lolRadio Arcade wrote:just the software - When people ask which 'Digital Audio Workstation' you are on they want to know logic/live/cubase etc - not what other gear you have...
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Re: What is a DAW?
I consider it your production software + your machine...
Re: What is a DAW?
When is a DAW not a DAW?
When it's a JAR
When it's a JAR
Re: What is a DAW?
When is the person in front of the DAW a DAU? http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%BCmms ... ender_UserUKRuss wrote:When is a DAW not a DAW?
When it's a JAR
Re: What is a DAW?
Clever stuff.
Here is my more surreal answer.
Why is?
A DAW.
Here is my more surreal answer.
Why is?
A DAW.
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Re: What is a DAW?
i tend to agree w/this view. my laptop is my D.A.W. I use it to work on music...digitally. the software is just one part of that system.shuutobi wrote:I consider it your production software + your machine...
Though one should take note of the fact that i have this system stripped of everything save Live and some system utilities like disc imaging software etc... And I use this system exclusively for said D.A.W. work.
If someone asks me what D.A.W. I run (because that happens like...all the time lol) I tell them a Lenovo Thinkpad running Win XP and Ableton Live 8.
to me the op's question is like asking what is a mac or a pc? you ask some people and they'll start talking about operating systems...others will talk about the total system. both answers are correct but not quite complete. i know this guy that runs OS X on his "PC" and vice verca
Ableton is not my DAW...its my sequencer/plug in host etc
Re: What is a DAW?
I think its a maliable acronym really. Sometimes I refer to just the software was a DAW - as in "What DAW are you running?". Whereas, logically, a workstation is a complete area where you work, and you cant work without a computer running the software/monitors etc.
Then again, Would you refer to an analogue mixing desk/reet-to-reel/etc in a studio as a AAW - Analoge Audio Workstation?
Then again, Would you refer to an analogue mixing desk/reet-to-reel/etc in a studio as a AAW - Analoge Audio Workstation?
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Re: What is a DAW?
good question. typically most would just call that "the studio" lol j/kre.mark wrote: Then again, Would you refer to an analogue mixing desk/reet-to-reel/etc in a studio as a AAW - Analoge Audio Workstation?
who coined the acronym D.A.W. anyways?
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Re: What is a DAW?
daw, or daw not, there is no daw