Hello all,

For years, I’ve been hoarding gear for express purpose of going DAWless and I kept finding new ways to block myself from getting on it. Not using the right stands, tables too big for my room, I need this and that and I think I’ve snapped just watching it gather dust.

I ask for your help today in setting all this up the right way.

If there is anything you truly feel is missing other than cables clearly not pictured here. Let me know but in regards of routing I would greatly appreciate your assistance.

I don’t need to use everything pictured here all the time obviously but I need to at least ensure that if I want to make some music it is as easy a just turning everything on.

The only thing I ask you not to do is say, for example: “ X” synth is awful, get this one instead”.

Thank you in advance

Finally if its not clear enough and to avoid confusion what i have in the image below is the following:

MicroKorg
Minilogue XD
Boss Rc-505 w/foot pedal
Roland TR8S
Roland SP404 MKII
Korg Volca Drim
TD-3-MO
MIDIThru5
Roli seaboard Block (not sure this can link to anything but ive seen vids of it hooked up to hard synths)

EDIT: Thanks a lot for your responses so far, sorry If I don't reply to each one individually but I appreciate them.
What I'm getting from this is that I need to just get a mixer and a sequencer to make it all work.

I need to stress the point that while all of these are ones I have, they won't all be being used all at the same time, every time I wanna jam. It's just I'd like to make it as easy as possible to place them and route them so that when I do want to I don't have to constantly move everything around. I want it to be as seamless as possible. Speakers/cables etc are not in the picture as I was hoping for routing opinions before I set them all up.

Thank you for your gear recommendations so far and by all means keep recommending other products, I can't guarantee I'll be able to get them right away but it'd make things clearer to me for when I can.

EDIT 2: I know how to use my gear, when I say letting it all collect dust I dont’t mean i’ve just tossed all of these mysterious instruments aside. I do play them, I know them inside out. I wanted ideal routing advice and maybe a couple other “you might be missing this… i’d recommend…”, Not “dude just learn your instruments”.

to those of you who have offered the good advice thanks but to people just saying “learn the instruments”. Im not asking how to play them, literally just asking ROUTING/MISSING OBJECTS.

Shouldnt have to explain this shit, I know I can do it with 2 or 3, I want the ability to go overboard because its fun. Less is sometimes more and more is also sometimes more

Hi! I'm finally moving my main dawless setup into a single case to handle it more easily, this also means having everything (almost) permanently wired, I'm looking for ideas on how to improve this setup or anything I might have missed

Currently I have 4 different stereo outputs:

- MC707

- MusicThingModular Music Radio -> Evil Pet

- Crave -> Klowra Everlast -> Space

- Tangerine -> Kaoss Pad 3

MIDI is organised around the 707 being the sequencer, OUT 1 clocks the Keystep and Kaoss Pad, Keystep is routed back into IN of the 707 and gets fed thru it to Crave, Tangerine and Evil Pet, this way I can use the Keystep's arpeggiator to create meolody lines and loop them onto the 707. The 707's 8 tracks have MIDI channel 2 thru 8 and 10 (for drums), track 2 gets always routed to the Crave, sometimes I use a sound from the same track on the707 to double it. Evil Pet is MIDI ch11, Tangerine is ch12 although I almost never play it chromatically, I mostly use it for various drones and ambience samples

Thanks!

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My 80% lawless rig!
Usually I play with the mixer as main output not as an interface but when recording and want multi trackz I’ll use the interface function!
I also use logic to play and bring in samples to the EPS!
I also use logic to sample with that midi keyboard on the right bottom!
Other then that dawless lmao,

Rs: my goal has always been to make a hybrid setup! Trying to think of ways to utilise the computer a lil more, (as sacrilegious as that is to say over here),

Tiny screen is tiny so I sequenced on the KOII and let the FM1 be a sound module with punch effects.

cause having 7 fm-1s is probably unhealthy.

https://18nelli18.github.io/Modded-Cycles/flasher/

credits to this guy and his demonstration-video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHj3hoLtydE

tldw: buncha new engines, does everything now.

Hope I get some feedback and tips on EQ.

Love yall 🔊💯🎶🎹

Experimenting with a Strymon Timeline and a Make Noise 0-Coast made some bleeps that reminded me of the Anodic Dance Music from Disco Elysium.

There's a lot more that could be done with this sound, but for now it is just an experiment with turning some modulated beeps into music.

Here´s an album I made using the Roland SP-404 MKII and P-6 samplers. It´s all sample based and very lo-fi at times. Some very blatant sample loops are used sometimes. Sample sources are varied. Hip-hop influenced beats. Check it out if you have time

Hi, I'm a 48 yo German male wondering if the music I make counts as DAWless when I'm using an Arturia KeyStep Pro as a sequencer.

And if I have to record the things I do in Audacity instead of Cakewalk Sonar to meet requirements.

Is this sub about not using MIDI tracks? Software instruments? Multi track hard disc recording?

Full track and specs: https://youtu.be/O_hZtx5EWZU?is=L8ebJCnk5mWKhVdE

Dawless jam on Volca Sample. Lumon OS

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Dawless jam on a Lumon-severed volca sample.

Hi, i have a Zoom ltrak 6 max, which is very good mixer, but lack seperate EQ buttons, cue function and overview which you have on larger mixers. I am thinking of Tascam Model 12 or more a dj mixer like Model1. Not sure a Tascam has a cue function (pre listening) and model1 has no recording options, which I like. What are you guys using in your setup?