Topic

Music history

  • Can you make a hit on a laptop? The bedroom-producer record

    Can you make a hit song on a laptop? Yes, and the record proves it: a $30 beat made in FL Studio spent 19 consecutive weeks at number one on the Hot 100, a bedroom album made in Logic won Album of the Year, and a young producer working on his iPhone landed a track on a Kendrick Lamar album. Here are the real cases, what they had in common, and what a laptop cannot give you.

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  • From tape to prompt: a short history of the DAW

    A short history of the DAW: from a 1978 minicomputer system and the 1983 MIDI standard, through Pro Tools, Cubase, FruityLoops, Ableton Live and GarageBand, to browser studios and AI DAWs that take direction in plain English. Each step made the studio cheaper and closer to the musician; the AI step is the first that changes who you can ask for help.

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