Live Dawless Setup // How to perform without a laptop 

This was a great explanation! I am back to music after many years away from it. This gave me some ideas for the setup I want to make. Thanks!

Nice presentation. Those two synths make much sense !!!! Tr-8s has all the Roland kits ... smart !!

Dope set up! Look forward to future vids..🤖

appreciate the video. just introducing midi nto my setup and this was very helpful

Great and interesting setup. I bought the 45000 years ago because it was the perfect piece of gear for me. I used it for pre-recorded loops as well, which I stored in the stereo track and still had four tracks free to record to. I also did the mono setting as you are doing in the video, with the right channel as kind of fx send. Thanks a lot sharing!

Cool setup, lots of great gear there. And i like your channel, nice to see an upcoming synth youtuber!

I love your set up! Very cool.

Oh my God! I finally found a channel that talks about the stuff I want to do!!!!! It made me scream like a little girl and my wife literally told me what the hell is wrong with me. Hahahahaha! I also started making my own beats after leaving church a few years ago and use a Roland Fantom G7, Korg 03R/W for my 80s/90s sounds and a Roland Integra 7. All I'm missing is a Tascam DP-24SD l, I also pre ordered a Roland SP-404MKII and hope to learn how to use it to make better beats with chopping music. I honestly tried out ableton live 11 lite with a midi controller and a Focusrite Scarlett 18i20 but I just couldn't for the life of me figure out how to properly use it and stop the very bad latency issues I was experiencing. So I took that stuff back to Guitar Center and now looking at a Tascam DP-24SD. Hope to see more of your cool videos. Forgive me for the long comment. I'm just so freaking excited I found a channel that resonates with me.

yo! hell yeah, repping detroit! maybe when shows are a thing again i'll catch you at a venue

Wow, what a set up! 😮

8:05 thanks for talking about the FX routing. I looked up the 1604 VLZ3 and it seems very flexible. I've got a question, if you don't mind: say I have a stereo out from a synthesizer, and I want to put it through a stereo FX pedal, but I want to record the dry synth and the wet signal from the pedal, so 2 stereo channels. (I also want to be able to bring the FX in later via a fader, if you can imagine something like the Chase Bliss Habit needing about 3 minutes worth of input to "warm up".) Would it be possible to do that with this mixer? Or would I need something like a distribution amplifier which splits my synth stereo signal into 2 stereo signals, one of which goes into the FX, and then ending up using 2 stereo or 4 mono channels on the mixer? Or perhaps there's some other way, using inserts. Kind of hard to visualise and figure out without having the unit in front of me.

I just found this video. I really hope you still do this!

thx👋👋👋💥

Bro I wish we were neighbors Lol! You got super dope flow M

Hi Miles, Love your video. I have a dawless setup with sequencer going out to a number of synths and I am think of incorporating a looper to help build layers. It looks like the Boss 505 or the Electro Harmonix 45000 would be the 2 main ones. I wondered how you had found the 45000 in practice please? Would you recommend? Thanks very much.

I'm sorry! It is a fire hazard! Please make sure that your electrical systems and outlets are in excellent condition! Or at least get a state of the art Surge Protector! Otherwise, I love your hardware! And yes, you are obviously a freaking GENIUS!!!

I hope you are still active with this because I got a couple of questions. Is it possible to get in touch with you? One general question is: You do not use this setup to play out, correct? Like, when you say "live dawless" you mean that you record and stream live from your studio, right? I am an old G wanting to get back into playing dawless live. I really love that you use the JV-880, it is one of three old racks I use and a mainstay. You have a TR-8 so you may not appreciate the drums on the JV-880 as much as me. I use Alesis MMT-8s as my sequencer and am looking to set up a pedal combo to give my stuff some life.

432 Hz is the frequency of the universe. Cool video

In your dawless setups, what do you use to record audio?

Pretty cool...but for me(connect) TO difficult...🤔

Hi , would you recommend behringer mixer for a synth setup? If yes what model . Thank you .

What kind of mixer do you have and do you recommend it?

What brand of midi clock are you using?

i went back to the daw. flstudio and a ton o f midi outs. i use a tr6s. i usually sequence on the drum machine and just clock sync. but writing notes in one place is better than on a bunch of synths. 313 is the place to be!

I have a question, which is a little off-topic...however, in relation to music. I own analog synths, use them in my own music production--and, I'm relatively aware of some very well-known instrumental electronic artists (obviously Moby, Aphex etc), but I'm always really interested in the environment for indie artists looking to break into purely instrumental electronic genres. For example, in your video you said that you make Detroit style Techno music--this is not an insult, but I'm wondering do you simply just make this for your own listening pleasure? For all I know, a lot of people know who you are and you have a big fanbase...but, I often wonder with the purely instrumental electronic genres, it would seem insanely difficult to market yourself and be known by anyone really. Firstly, off the bat, techno and others are subcultures and not really well known outside of those circles. I use a lot of synth and electronic elements in my music ideas, but there is always guitar, vocals...probably more similar to something like MGMT. Now, with that I can totally understand being able to actually get your music out to a wide audience with enough consistent work and some creativity. How does one market themselves or get their music out there when it's purely instrumental electronic music? Is there room for artists to actually sell their music/products/gain fanbase? Here's an example of why I get a bit confused with this question: let's take a look at Moby. A lot of people outside of electronic music know who Moby is (I realize he's not as inaccessible as someone like Aphex...or even just typical Detroit techno or even house music). For his time, maybe he did some cool stuff...I personally like his music...but, it's not breathtaking OMG stuff to me. He was basically doing what everyone in Hip Hop has always done--sampling things and fitting those into his own melodies and beats. Yet, his albums like Play are HUGELY successful. Nowadays, I simply cannot see someone releasing something like that and blowing up. Additionally, I have always wondered why there's only one Moby--the type of music he made is really not too difficult ESPECIALLY considering the accessbility and ease of sampling with newer digital technology...the skill level to do what he did is lower now, for sure. Yet, no Moby clones that I have ever heard. Seems odd. Further than that, it would seem much, much harder to distinguish yourself from others, especially if you're making X style of electronic (e.g., Detroit techno), because it is formulaic...very much formulaic. More formulaic than guitar-based genres in many ways. So, out of curiosity...would you be able to maybe give me some education or insight on what it's like for an indie artist making music in a genre like yours? Do you just release music for yourself entirely? Do you find it's a very difficult world to break into? How do my thoughts line up with the reality?

Check antipop consortium

Dawless & Toothless. JK Had to say it 😅

Dawless?? New name we true skool call it raw

sidechaining?

Afx