How To DAWless Jamming

In preparation for upcoming 303 Day, I go over how to set up a table and produce techno music without software digital audio workstations.
Gear:
DJI Pocket Osmo digital video camera
Post Audio Processing: fade out for jam
Music © all rights reserved. Haze Anderson - 2024
#303day #dawless

[@EannaButler]

Great pace. Love those little shelves you have. And the point of "tear it down and start from scratch" is great advice. From experience, there really is no point in poking and prodding to find an issue - it quickly gets frustrating, and cable routing always suffers too. Best thing like you say is to start from scratch and build it up. It serves to build up your own confidence in what you're putting together too.

[@HazeAnderson]

Thanks! And indeed, things can quickly escalate ... I didn't even add the patch bays to the mix this time 😆

[@_greenleader]

The king of dawless!

[@makiszeg5745]

very informative video.Thank you :)

[@hellf.o]

I really wanna do a dawless hardware jam and I don't where to start! This is so interesting Haze! You never stop learning indeed! 👍👍

[@SoundMediaVibes]

Interesting video! 👍👍👍👍👍

[@synthseeker]

This is excellent Haze...AND... we have the same rug! Rug-brothers! :)

[@HazeAnderson]

Rug-brothers! 😆👍

[@memorybugmusic]

This is really interesting Haze and clearly explains how you build your DAWless set up. I'm sure it's is a great source of info. for anyone setting off down the DAWless path. 👍

[@ShaneNull]

that is a yummy spread, another option is just get one piece of gear and see what you can squeeze out of it, then try 2-3+, I started with just a 0-coast and a phone

[@I.O.M.]

Awesome man 👍I have a usb power bank and use the 404 most days but my set up is tiny/small.

[@leftmono1016]

Some very good info here 👍 I come from a time before DAWs existed and can definitely concur that connecting one device at a time and testing is the way to go. I had a bad midi cable once and it foxed me for about an hour. Very rare but it happens. Hardware midi thru’s work fine if you run out of midi ports. Never had a sync issue running thru port chains. Soft thru’s aren’t always so reliable.

[@HazeAnderson]

Yes MIDI THRU is very handy, I wanted to keep things super simple so I just avoided mentioning them at all. In my past setup I used just about every THRU port available to me in addition to 7 MIDI hubs! 😂

[@leftmono1016]

@@HazeAnderson - that’s a lot of midi cables. My secret weapon is an old parallel port MOTU 8x8 interface, used standalone as an 8 in 8 out merge box. Rock solid and very cheap.

[@g-tracks]

This is a very well thought out video with great information 😁 Amazing job my friend

[@Freakofspeed]

haha! I had the RK-004 cause me grief in the past (dropped is settings??), so much so I have an audio file on my phone to reconfigure it to my liking. I have the RK-004 handling my volcas and the RK-006 handling most of my other gear... the guy behind RetroKits is a midi genius! Nice little tutorial!

[@HazeAnderson]

Grits is an absolute genius! 😆I had a couple ports configured to send 5V for the RK-002 MIDI cables ... don't use that for MIDI OUT from the Squarp Pyramid!! 😆

[@mauriciomandara5946]

Thanks for sharing! This is gold

[@DJ-Lazy-Lodger]

all your pupils are craving now:-)

[@KurtLorenz]

❤❤❤ No drinks on the dance floor!

[@edwin-zone]

Looking good!

[@schlaflabor1]

Thats a nice video, Haze! It is always a challenge to get the devices together and talking to each other. You just got it right, sometimes you got to relax, step back and redo a thing, that helps!

[@CNTRRNDM]

Great script, super in-depth, super detailed...nice one, mate!!!

[@josecow7514]

nice video

[@SimpleHold]

Thanks for sharing! Not only good clear information, but why you made each decision, also.

[@electro-soma]

Great instructional video Haze. I could've done with this when I started out a couple of years ago. Your mixer's surface area is larger than my entire playing area for my gear! 😂

[@cornishwavesmusic]

Very interesting matey

[@GadgetReboot]

Now I need to buy a midi transceiver like that. And a bunch of cables. And dust off an old mixer (limited channels). And get everything else too...

[@HazeAnderson]

This one is called the Retrokits RK-004, I also recommend the RK-006. I bought a few 50 foot MIDI cables from Hosa and cut them into custom lengths and soldered connectors to them. In terms of the "everything else" ... the Behringer 2600 is THE synth for electrical engineers IMO. You can download the original Arp 2600 manual from the 1970s and read all about it. Amazing educational tool. Thanks for stopping by! 👋😄

[@wombra8314]

✊👁👄👁🤚

[@HazeAnderson]

D: 😂

[@jaybutler6344]

Awesome video, How are you programming your master sequencer to each device respectively? Is each device on its own midi channel? 2 midi channels(in/out)? Would love to know more about that process.

[@HazeAnderson]

Thank you! For this set up I am keeping things very simple. Each synth is set to a separate channel and each track on the sequencer is assigned to one channel. MIDI out from the sequencer to a hub, which relays MIDI to all the synths, but each synth is set to respond to only one channel and disregards the rest. I hope that helps! 👍

[@jaybutler6344]

Okay, SQUARP AQUIRED. in regards to the rd9 interaction, is the rd9 one midi channel? Or one per pad/note? Or are you just recording drum midi sequences to the pyramid? Sorry for all the questions but I'm more flip turned upside down than will Smith when he moved in with his aunti and uncle in Belair