Watched this again and saw Jeremy’s Dawless Setup in a different light, even from what I’ve seen on his collaborations with Ben Alman in their Entire Robot. Jeremy takes us back to when he was a boy and brings us through his journey as a keyboard musician and composer over 4 decades to where he is today. Amazing! It’s been about the music, the sound and his growth creatively using cutting edge technology 30 keyboards, midi and synthesizers in his own Sound Studio with Reaper and classics like his Baby Grand Piano.
Super nice demo! Good to see you're using the RK008 .mid export to reaper as well. We indeed had something like this in mind because just jamming away with live gear is so different and hands-on compareed to making songs in a DAW. For the finishing touches on a song you can hardly get around to using a computer in the end so we tried to combine best of both worlds in this.
Thanks so much @RetrokitsDev, much appreciated! That's great, because it's a very easy way go between DAWless and DAW now. All I had to do was set up the virtual instruments in Reaper. Now, to finish that song :D
Thanks for the insights Jeremy, great playing as well! Did you start with the MMT-8? I think I saw it in one of your other videos? Do you miss the extra controls the MMT-8 has compared to the RK008? A used MMT-8 is way cheaper so might start with that and see if it suits my workflow :-) Thanks again!
Thanks again Simon, appreciate that! Actually, I started with the HR-16 drum machine (and my Yamaha B200), which is similar to the MMT-8 in some ways I think, although I never had an MMT-8. The RK008 does have some features that the MMT-8 never had, and they are always doing updates to the firmware. But if it's easier to get into it with an actual MMT-8, then the RK008 will feel familiar and more powerful whenever you get it.
Thanks very much for sharing all this!🙏 As a Dawless jammer myself, and being very new to electro music ingeneral over the past few years (IT was my Covid project 🤷♂️), i have found very much the same thing as you pointed out at the end of this video, about the paradox of option paralysis.... Well, perhaps paralysis is a bit of a strong term, but you know the thing; after experimenting with a bunch of gear, and realizing that after decades of playing guitar and singing, depending on other humans to be the rest of the band.... Well, now i am the band! With all the responsibilities and requirements for attention-to-detail that come along with all the other pieces of the musical puzzle! 🤯 Then, add on to all that the realization that music is no longer limited by physical constraints - if i want a trumpet sound in the mix, i don't have to let the idea go, or try to search out a trumpet-playing human.... i just put a virtual trumpet in there, and boom, my fantasy becomes sonic reality! IT's a bit like playing god, where our every whim can come to life - as long as we put the work in to figure out which combination of buttons to push to switch time signatures in the middle of a section, etc. 🙄😭 i just picked up the Oxi One sequencer, because for improvisation purposes, ITs various generative capabilities are just next level in terms of the ease of use for evolving improvisations - high recommend! And i'm since getting inspired to get more concrete in terms of what i'm trying to do, which is full-on electro improvisation from scratch every time, while including guitar and vocals in the mix as well, very much similar to what you guys are doing live! Thank you for that, super inspiring for me! Please keep sharing more of your dawless journey 😍👏🙏🌌
Wow @darkuniversesound, thanks for sharing and for the kind words! Nice, I will have to check out your stuff! The Oxi One looks very cool, have seen it around on YT a bunch. I need to get faster at setting up generative stuff on the Elektron, I like the effect of randomization.
Happy New Year Jeremy! A Technical Creative Instructional Masterpiece to start The New Year! Dawless Capability Simplifies and Extends Practice, Song Creation and Musical Creativity MIDI Only Sequencer Based more Directly From the latest technology makes development from idea to fully executed music easier and more effective qualitatively and quantitatively. You can even develop and use the product of this process on the road and then add your studio reaper to add layers to it! So extremely well thought out and communicated video marking the beginning of a new exciting way to make music Jeremy! I am so proud of you for the courage to pursue and live out the dreams you have had all your life… your music! Dad
Happy New Year Dad, thanks for watching! Yeah, you got the concepts, so that's great it came across! Thanks a lot Dad, it was a fun little video to work on over vacation!
You guys are super sweet! i've looked at hundreds of videos here on YT the past few years, and not once until today have i ever seen anyone's parents write them a nice note in the comments; you guys both just made my day! Keep spreading the love around, you crazy cats 😍🙏🌌
I think many who actually have experience playing an instrument would have some sort of DAWless and DAW hybrid workflow. Both offer some creativity advantages versus being stuck in one tool or the other. Nice demo by the way.
I found the perfect hybid as well. Dedicated one iPad per music app, and then one dedicated audio interface and one dedicated midi keyboard. So, each iPad becomes a hybrid hardware solution. It is so easy to keep things organized in the studio and more so, in my head. Turn it on, ready to go. You can keep your GAS in check as well. Get tired of a particular app and setup? Just load another app, remap your controller, and ready to go. I'm doing the same for VST's next. Not as clean and easy, but not everything can be run on iPad. East/West symphonies and other high end sample player vsts MUST run on high end gear that go beyond what Ipad can handle. Anyway... great video. Glad to see others digging into the hybrid route of 'dawless'. Play with loopy app on ipad if you haven't already! Well worth buying an iPad just for loopy with a good audio interface or Tascam Model 12 or up! It's a killer for live or studio.
That's great, I'll have to explore iPad apps at some point, as I do want a more portable setup for travel, and my friend Ben has had good things to say about Loopy App. I just bought new iPhones for me and my wife, so after the sting is gone I will look at iPads :D
Think my last post was deleted by me accidently. Pick up 9th gen iPad 256GB for under $400.00 All you really need honestly. My next iPad will be the 64GB 9th gen for just $200-$225 range. It will be to run korg's wavestation. More than enough for several music apps. Don't waste money on 10th gen or pro ipads. Total overkill! Even if you can find cheap 7th or 8th gen iPads, you are good to go!
I’m an old fart and I used to use the Roland MC50. I took it literally everywhere (I still have it), but I would have KILLED for an RK008 back in the day.
Anyone has started to play without a computer... love to be free from hardware or software conflict. And love put his hands on the machines in real time without keys delay. (Like me😜)
@@JeremyParkerMusic today..I use the PC only like a multitracks recorder. I do Sync manually with the graphic waveform of each track. I use midi only for Sysex patches..send/receive.😜
oh my, I had an Amiga 500 and DMCS... it was terrible haha! I was so glad when MED and then OCTAMED trackers came out later, when I got a PC, I picked up Cakewalk which was bundled with a Soundblast card REAPER, now, and I am not bothering to try anything else that's a nice dawless setup you have there I have thought about dawless stuff and as a Eurorack owner I am probably the odd one out still using REAPER as my recording tool thing is, it would take money, that I would rather spend on modules, to invest in a new hardware mixer I do have an older Fostex 8 track HD recorder but it's only 16 bit, so I would rather not use it you make good points re dropping the daw for sequencing duties and I am doing that more myself so, dawless... maybe... maybe not..... cheers andy 👋
Thanks Andy for watching and sharing your story! I wish I had gotten into trackers, because I know so much of the video game music I loved was done on trackers. That's funny you had an Amiga/DCMS and then PC/Cakewalk, but maybe that was the logical progression for a lot of us. Yeah, Reaper is great, and it's hard to beat for recording if you have a bunch of sound sources you like already and just want to record the audio. I guess if you didn't record, you'd basically be DAWless already. It's all good! Jeremy
Powerful statement 👍 even though I'm not a professional, but a passionate organ and keyboard player ever, I had recently got software as part of a buyed Master Key and is not satisfy me at all, I want to play.
Watched this again and saw Jeremy’s Dawless Setup in a different light, even from what I’ve seen on his collaborations with Ben Alman in their Entire Robot. Jeremy takes us back to when he was a boy and brings us through his journey as a keyboard musician and composer over 4 decades to where he is today. Amazing! It’s been about the music, the sound and his growth creatively using cutting edge technology 30 keyboards, midi and synthesizers in his own Sound Studio with Reaper and classics like his Baby Grand Piano.
Thanks for checking it out again, Dad, appreciate it!
Nice vid and great playing Jeremy!
Thanks a lot Luke, much appreciated!!
This video deserves way more views. Nicely done.
Thank you very much @sean808080! The algorithm doesn't favor all the different content on my channel I think... so tell your friends I guess!! :)
Super nice demo! Good to see you're using the RK008 .mid export to reaper as well. We indeed had something like this in mind because just jamming away with live gear is so different and hands-on compareed to making songs in a DAW. For the finishing touches on a song you can hardly get around to using a computer in the end so we tried to combine best of both worlds in this.
Thanks so much @RetrokitsDev, much appreciated! That's great, because it's a very easy way go between DAWless and DAW now. All I had to do was set up the virtual instruments in Reaper. Now, to finish that song :D
Thanks for the insights Jeremy, great playing as well! Did you start with the MMT-8? I think I saw it in one of your other videos? Do you miss the extra controls the MMT-8 has compared to the RK008? A used MMT-8 is way cheaper so might start with that and see if it suits my workflow :-) Thanks again!
Thanks again Simon, appreciate that! Actually, I started with the HR-16 drum machine (and my Yamaha B200), which is similar to the MMT-8 in some ways I think, although I never had an MMT-8. The RK008 does have some features that the MMT-8 never had, and they are always doing updates to the firmware. But if it's easier to get into it with an actual MMT-8, then the RK008 will feel familiar and more powerful whenever you get it.
Thanks very much for sharing all this!🙏 As a Dawless jammer myself, and being very new to electro music ingeneral over the past few years (IT was my Covid project 🤷♂️), i have found very much the same thing as you pointed out at the end of this video, about the paradox of option paralysis.... Well, perhaps paralysis is a bit of a strong term, but you know the thing; after experimenting with a bunch of gear, and realizing that after decades of playing guitar and singing, depending on other humans to be the rest of the band.... Well, now i am the band! With all the responsibilities and requirements for attention-to-detail that come along with all the other pieces of the musical puzzle! 🤯
Then, add on to all that the realization that music is no longer limited by physical constraints - if i want a trumpet sound in the mix, i don't have to let the idea go, or try to search out a trumpet-playing human.... i just put a virtual trumpet in there, and boom, my fantasy becomes sonic reality! IT's a bit like playing god, where our every whim can come to life - as long as we put the work in to figure out which combination of buttons to push to switch time signatures in the middle of a section, etc. 🙄😭
i just picked up the Oxi One sequencer, because for improvisation purposes, ITs various generative capabilities are just next level in terms of the ease of use for evolving improvisations - high recommend! And i'm since getting inspired to get more concrete in terms of what i'm trying to do, which is full-on electro improvisation from scratch every time, while including guitar and vocals in the mix as well, very much similar to what you guys are doing live! Thank you for that, super inspiring for me! Please keep sharing more of your dawless journey 😍👏🙏🌌
Wow @darkuniversesound, thanks for sharing and for the kind words! Nice, I will have to check out your stuff!
The Oxi One looks very cool, have seen it around on YT a bunch. I need to get faster at setting up generative stuff on the Elektron, I like the effect of randomization.
Man, that looks like a cool venue!
Yeah it's a local bar where we had a monthly residency going.
Very nice vid and setup, I totally agree on everything! 😊
Hey Actitect! Thanks a lot man, appreciate it!
Happy New Year Jeremy! A Technical Creative Instructional Masterpiece to start The New Year!
Dawless Capability Simplifies and Extends Practice, Song Creation and Musical Creativity MIDI Only Sequencer Based more Directly From the latest technology makes development from idea to fully executed music easier and more effective qualitatively and quantitatively. You can even develop and use the product of this process on the road and then add your studio reaper to add layers to it!
So extremely well thought out and communicated video marking the beginning of a new exciting way to make music Jeremy! I am so proud of you for the courage to pursue and live out the dreams you have had all your life… your music!
Dad
Happy New Year Dad, thanks for watching! Yeah, you got the concepts, so that's great it came across! Thanks a lot Dad, it was a fun little video to work on over vacation!
You guys are super sweet! i've looked at hundreds of videos here on YT the past few years, and not once until today have i ever seen anyone's parents write them a nice note in the comments; you guys both just made my day! Keep spreading the love around, you crazy cats 😍🙏🌌
@@darkuniversesound thank you! My Dad always leaves a nice thoughtful comment on my videos, which is great!
I think many who actually have experience playing an instrument would have some sort of DAWless and DAW hybrid workflow. Both offer some creativity advantages versus being stuck in one tool or the other.
Nice demo by the way.
I hope that would be the case, as I see I was missing out on DAWless for many years...
Thank you, and thanks for watching.
I found the perfect hybid as well. Dedicated one iPad per music app, and then one dedicated audio interface and one dedicated midi keyboard. So, each iPad becomes a hybrid hardware solution. It is so easy to keep things organized in the studio and more so, in my head. Turn it on, ready to go. You can keep your GAS in check as well. Get tired of a particular app and setup? Just load another app, remap your controller, and ready to go. I'm doing the same for VST's next. Not as clean and easy, but not everything can be run on iPad. East/West symphonies and other high end sample player vsts MUST run on high end gear that go beyond what Ipad can handle. Anyway... great video. Glad to see others digging into the hybrid route of 'dawless'. Play with loopy app on ipad if you haven't already! Well worth buying an iPad just for loopy with a good audio interface or Tascam Model 12 or up! It's a killer for live or studio.
That's great, I'll have to explore iPad apps at some point, as I do want a more portable setup for travel, and my friend Ben has had good things to say about Loopy App. I just bought new iPhones for me and my wife, so after the sting is gone I will look at iPads :D
Think my last post was deleted by me accidently. Pick up 9th gen iPad 256GB for under $400.00 All you really need honestly. My next iPad will be the 64GB 9th gen for just $200-$225 range. It will be to run korg's wavestation. More than enough for several music apps. Don't waste money on 10th gen or pro ipads. Total overkill! Even if you can find cheap 7th or 8th gen iPads, you are good to go!
Thanks for the tip!
very cool set up man
Thanks a lot, it's fun!
Every time I ask my mom to listen to my loop-based music, she's all "HELL NOOOO!"...yet, there she was, sip'n pino gricio at you show. Thanks mom.
I’m an old fart and I used to use the Roland MC50. I took it literally everywhere (I still have it), but I would have KILLED for an RK008 back in the day.
Neat! I used my Yamaha B200's built-in sequencer back in the day, but that was my only piece of gear for a while...
Anyone has started to play without a computer...
love to be free from hardware or software conflict.
And love put his hands on the machines in real time without keys delay.
(Like me😜)
yeah that's true, and no keyboard, mouse and monitor is also great!
@@JeremyParkerMusic today..I use the PC only like a multitracks recorder.
I do Sync manually with the graphic waveform of each track.
I use midi only for Sysex patches..send/receive.😜
oh my, I had an Amiga 500 and DMCS... it was terrible haha!
I was so glad when MED and then OCTAMED trackers came out
later, when I got a PC, I picked up Cakewalk which was bundled with a Soundblast card
REAPER, now, and I am not bothering to try anything else
that's a nice dawless setup you have there
I have thought about dawless stuff and as a Eurorack owner I am probably the odd one out still using REAPER as my recording tool
thing is, it would take money, that I would rather spend on modules, to invest in a new hardware mixer
I do have an older Fostex 8 track HD recorder but it's only 16 bit, so I would rather not use it
you make good points re dropping the daw for sequencing duties and I am doing that more myself
so, dawless... maybe... maybe not.....
cheers
andy 👋
Thanks Andy for watching and sharing your story! I wish I had gotten into trackers, because I know so much of the video game music I loved was done on trackers. That's funny you had an Amiga/DCMS and then PC/Cakewalk, but maybe that was the logical progression for a lot of us. Yeah, Reaper is great, and it's hard to beat for recording if you have a bunch of sound sources you like already and just want to record the audio. I guess if you didn't record, you'd basically be DAWless already. It's all good!
Jeremy
Powerful statement 👍 even though I'm not a professional, but a passionate organ and keyboard player ever, I had recently got software as part of a buyed Master Key and is not satisfy me at all, I want to play.
Thanks for watching and sharing! I agree, there's nothing like really playing and having fun on your instrument.