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Ask HN: Getting Started with DAW?

So, I saw the other day the release of the ep-133, and it happens that I want to get started doing that kind of stuff (e.g., creating simple beats). I have zero knowledge about DAW/sampling and music in general (my background is in soft. engineering), so the first thing that I searched on Google was "open source daw" and I found LMMS (https://lmms.io/). Installed it, played a little bit with it and right now I'm going through the documentation. Feels like a lot to process (I don't know almost all of the terminology used).

Do you know which kind of books/articles/blogs I can follow to get started in this world of DAW? I would like to get the fundamentals first and then start experimenting (e.g., not sure if the analogy is correct, but "it's like I don't want to learn JavaScript, but I want to learn data structures, algorithms and programming in general").

I know there's stuff like Ableton, but I would like to first learn the fundamentals (which I hope one can learn with simple open source DAWs like LMMS).

3 points danwee 2 years ago 4 comments

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