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This is really the first time a relatively conventional DAW has gotten its own, native modular environment that can build instruments and effects. Indeed, that approach is similar – as you can read in the modular docs, you get building blocks integrated inside the DAW. Updated: A commenter rightfully points out that I omitted MUX Modular, in MuLab.
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The downside: it’s mostly foreign to Ableton Live (as it’s a different piece of software with its own history), and it could be too deep for someone just wanting to build an effect or instrument. The upside: Max for Live can do just about everything.
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And of course there’s Ableton Live with Max for Live, though that’s really a different animal – it’s a full patching development environment that runs inside Live via a runtime, and API and interface hooks that allow you to access its devices. There’s Sensomusic Usine, which is a fully modular DAW / audio environment, and DMX lighting and video tool – perhaps the most modular of these (even relative to Bitwig Studio and The Grid). There’s Reason with its rich, patchable rack and devices. FL Studio has a Patcher tool for chaining instruments and effects. There’s Apple Logic’s now mostly rarely-used Environment. We’ve seen other DAWs go modular in different ways. With the other tools, that often means coding out the structure of your song or trying to link up to a different piece of software.
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And then once you have a patch you like, you can still interconnect premade devices – and you can work with clips and linear arrangement to actually finish songs. (And not everyone has access to those.) Here, you get a toolset that could prove more manageable. But the traditional environments for modular development are fairly unfriendly to new users – that’s why very often people’s first encounters with Max/MSP, SuperCollider, Pd, Reaktor, and the like is in a college course. It can even save time versus the effort spent trying to whittle away at a big, monolithic tool just go get to the bit you actually want. Experienced users of these environments (software especially, since it’s open-ended) do often find that patching exactly what they need can be more creative and inspirational. Why modulaity? It doesn’t have to just be about tinkering (though that can be fun for a lot of people).Ī modular setup is the very opposite of a preset mentality for music production.
Oh yeah, and if there is such an engine inside your DAW, you can also count on other people building a bunch of stuff you can reuse. And in the very opposite of today’s age of presets, that could make your music tool feel more your own.
It means, in theory at least, you can construct whatever you want from basic building blocks.
Having a truly modular system inside a DAW offers some tantalizing possibilities. Bitwig Studio 3 is poised to finally deliver on that promise, with “The Grid.” Bitwig Studio may have started in the shadow of Ableton, but one of its initial promises was building a DAW that was modular from the ground up.
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