Topic

Practice

  • You've opened a DAW. Now what? A 30-day plan

    A 30-day plan to learn a DAW after you open it for the first time: four weeks, one finished song a week, about 30 minutes a day. Week one gets a whole song out of an AI producer and takes it apart; weeks two and three rebuild drums, chords, bass and melody by hand; week four mixes and releases. Built on Ableton's browser course, an AI DAW and how habits actually form.

    Workflows

  • How long does it take to learn a DAW? And how AI shortens it

    How long it takes to learn a DAW depends on what "learn" means: finishing a first rough song can take an afternoon, getting comfortable with the core tools takes weeks of regular sessions, and fluency takes months of finished songs. No study puts a reliable number on it. Here is a milestone map, the traditional and AI-assisted routes through it, and why AI mostly shortens the time to your first finished songs.

    Workflows

Subscribe to We are the music makers

One email a week: the music-tech and AI-in-music news that mattered, and what we think about it.

Sign-ups open soon.