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Audio tracks or MIDI tracks, what is most common?
Happy Holidays all ye appoholics!
Following the discussion about NS2 missing audio tracks, I wonder what the most common way to record is today in both home and pro studios. I would guess audio tracks but hey... I don’ t know since I mostly see people here and online play multiple apps and gear together... the more synths you can play at the same time the merrier it seems😄....
Any thoughts?
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Joakim
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The most common are DAW but not the only possible choice/path.
So what about you? What do you need? Maybe it's better approach to help you...
It is not a cry for help, thanks man🙏, I am just genuinely curious HOW most people use their DAWs or DAWless setups?
Are they recording using audio or MIDI tracks? Or maybe both? What is the most common way when recording apps and electronic gear?
Personally, I am not interested in building a large MIDI setup, I have an iPad with a bunch of chosen apps and two hardware synths, one of them acting mostly as a master keyboard since I am a keys not a pad person. But using these three together, it got me curious of how common different recording methods/setups are?
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Freeze midi straight to audio in Cubasis.
So you sequence stuff, trigger it via MIDI and then record it all in one take to audio tracks?
The most common (from very basic standpoint) could be:
In the studio recording era there were some standards (in fact it was a lack of tools which made workflows more or less homogeneous also driven by goals with also experimental people inside and outside mainstream like Beatles or Kraftwerk) but nowadays we have echoes of that and lots of new approaches (and the rise of the true robots at the next corner...)
So even we can go further to my (probably wrong or incomplete) description there is not common anymore. Just similarities related to goal (or lack of).
As example:
I play keytar for meditation, fight against myself in the path to build covers which I need for my goals and against my lazy (and devalued self-steam) to write own songs meanwhile buy and sell gear (and work on accepting iOS isn't suited for my live gigs standards through sadness).
Start things on iPad, end them on Garageband... firstly some midi, sooner as possible going audio and trying to avoid too much overthinking (with no luck as you can see...)
Both for me, mostly use midi for drums and synths, but I also use a lot of guitar and record vocals, and use bass guitar on songs too. Just depends on what kind of song I’m working on. But both are equally important for me personally. NS2 is great but I usually export stems to Daws I can record audio with if I use it.
I can’t remember the last time I recorded audio into a track in any DAW. I am pretty much a MIDI only person.
Stellar description👍😁, thank you!
That’s it! It’s more a question of wanting to commit to the music and move forward. In my old fashioned brain going to audio does that though, obviously, as the tune progresses things can be changed. [edited out] Different genres demand different approaches though!
And me. I only tend to use audio for samples so I use eg pulse or whatever then that’s then triggered by midi too.
I think this may be a very genre specific question.
Also consider, there may be different answers for different parts of a given workflow. I'd guess most modern pop songwriters do something like: initial pass with a MIDI beat and audio recording to capture the hook. Then, everything MIDI so that keys and tempo can be changed. Then, everything printed or re-recorded as audio.
Also also, there's a pretty big workflow/tools difference between sequencing audio loops and recording full length audio tracks. Both might classify as 'audio' but they're pretty different beasts.
“Also also, there's a pretty big workflow/tools difference between sequencing audio loops and recording full length audio tracks. Both might classify as 'audio' but they're pretty different beasts.”
Right on to that @syrupcore.
That's why I stated there's no common standard anymore. Even Popstars nowadays has more experimentation than ever (to catch all the new different targets due market changes from the irruption of Napster in our lives...) They get peanuts from each sell than decades ago but they sell millions in comparison (from physical to streaming could be a good documentary name)
OT end.
Really appreciate you all sharing your thoughts on this, thanks!
I pretty much sequence hardware , driven by MIDI and then record it in one take to Cubase.. later adding overdubs... keys, vox etc.