electronic music without the computer
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Hope Breaks is the new album released this week by The Data Lakes. Some folks use DAWless to make entire albums, and in the past, I made a few EPs Treading Water and One Up that were about 90% DAWless.…
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PreSonus Eris 3.5 Review
Until recently I was using an old Denon Hifi as my main monitoring solution in my home studio alongside a variety of headphones. The system was proving unreliable, so I looked around for a compact and budget monitor speaker solution,…
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Roland J-6 Review
The Roland J-6 Chord Synth is part of the AIRA Compact series, a line of portable and powerful instruments designed to bring classic Roland sounds to the modern musician. You can check out our reviews of other synths in the…
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Roland S-1 MIDI Control
The Roland S-1 is a tiny 4 note poly synthesizer, that has a great deal of functionality packed into it. Straight away the demos on the device sound impressive and hint at what is to come. Trying to unlock that…
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What is a DAWless Jam?
The term DAWless Jam refers to making electronic music without using a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW). So, instead of relying on computer software like Ableton Live or Logic Pro, we use hardware such as drum machines, synthesizers and sequencers to…
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Analog Cravings with the Behringer Crave
The Behringer Crave is a very affordable semi-modular analog synth that offers a wealth of sound-shaping possibilities, available from Behringers store on Amazon. Although this synth is inspired by the classic Moog Mother-32, it brings some unique features to the…
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Roland T-8 with a MIDI Controller
View the Roland Aira Compact T-8 on Amazon The MIDI implementation chart on the Roland Aira T-8 is quite limited, but nothing ventured, nothing gained. So I setup the T-8 with an Arturia Minilab 3 MIDI controller to see what…
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Roland Aira Compact Cheat Sheets
visit the Roland Amazon Store The Roland Airas Compact series pack tons of functionality into tiny boxes. This usually means that many of the advanced functions are buried in the menus. Compounding this with the incredibly cryptic and unnecessarily retro…
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Roland Aira T-8 Solo Jam
DAWless jam with the Roland T8. So much fun having the 303 bass and a drum machine squeezed into this tiny portable box. There are a few shortcuts to jump to some menus like sidechain, but its still a bit…
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Dawless Light Industrial Techno Jam
Brining the noise this week with a more industrial flavour. The Microfreak is used for percussion alongside the Crave has the Mix control dialled to Noise. Combined together with the drum machine and only adding in minimal melodic elements the…
