Throw it at Burial, see what he comes up with :P

This feels like opening up a DAW for the first time as a kid, I kinda wanna try it haha

I was kinda like, “yeah that’s cool I guess” until 10:08 and my jaw hit the floor. That is unbelievably dope. I can’t count the number of times I was messing around and made something cool only to mess with the settings and lose it, never to figure it out again.

It's a raw piece of software right now but I can see the vision. Traditional DAW's have a lot of hoops to jump through to get this level of detail in your song so it's refreshing to see a new concept and have it just make sense. Right now, it looks like it takes the flexibility and ease of use of popular DAW's and combines it with the detailed editing of trackers. Very interested to see where this goes.

legitamately excited to hear what music is going to sound like in 10-20 years with tools like this available to the next generation

The lane effects create a way better workflow and ease of use of the effect than for instance using an effect on a track in ableton, toggling the on and off and then automating the effect. This seems more in line with how a producer want's to use those effects. Very nice.

my cpu wheezin watchin this

this looks great for sound design, like the type of sound design you would do for movies and games, where you’re layering many sounds into one

This reminds me of my first "DAW", Acid Pro - back in 1996(?) I think. It was my introduction to making music with a computer - had to keep everything on external disks - had 12k of memory and a shitty Turtle Beach sound card - that I had to install myself. lol... I swear I made better music when I had shitty gear and no idea what I was doing. Since then I have gone to music school and audio engineering school - worked as a professional bassist, an engineer, and sound designer for film and theater - all kinds of gear has passed through my hands since then - but Id give all of it up - to go back to that time when everything was still an adventure - and I had no clue. lol.

I like the clean sketch aspect. It’s open and exploration beckoning.

One day, this is going to be INSANE

so excited for this kind of alt-DAW

Without a wider palette of effects and synthesis tools, it's more of a sound design toy or experiment. I love the interface for drawing automation, and i love the clarity of just "sound over time." So, as a big sound design nerd, I see it as a place to go after sound design, where the limitations force me to stop sound design and focus on composition/layout.

This is cool, I can definitely see myself making choppy glitchy whacked out breakbeats in this DAW, seems like the perfect environment for it. I'll keep my eyes on this development.

Great video! I don't have the sort of galaxy brain that could create entire tracks in this, but I could totally see myself using it for sound design.

Polyrhythmic music would go crazy in this

dude this has some crazy potential, definitely make more videos on it

Its back to the start, just with a nice interactive GUI. aphex twin had to do that in consoles, text files and tracker-style tables. its a nice idea to galvanise the many software synth engines which were lost to the advances in OS, filesystems and hardware. its not like the techniques aren't in use anymore: they come carefully curated and neatly packed into synth cases, vst files, modulation and effects boxes. but before they ship out as products they still have to be created. taking a step back to the point where every oscillator can touch any point of every other oscillator.. is a great option to have. cross-, pulsewidth-, audiorate-modulations, wavefolding, feedback, using noise instead of envelopes to modulate amplitude etc. there's a shit ton of sounds to be had when shooting at waveforms for target practice. nice!

thanks for taking the time to make this short film. i found it inspiring. it's great to see tools that encourage manageable, accessible play; building blocks that are simple to put in place yet rich with possibilities. i'd love to see more on it and will probably end up downloading / supporting.🎉.

Damn. I recently fell in love with working with audio over midi. This is perfect 🤩

Video games, shows, animations and indie music is about go crazy

Oooooh me like! Thanks for the quick demo! Tht always recording feature should be in all daws.

You can drag in SAMPLES into the CARNIVAL and hit RND also (Sample stays). Glitch heaven.

CPU GONE WILD🗣🗣🗣🗣

This DAW just needs a piano roll, and it's already on its way to becoming a contender with the Big Boys.

this is pretty sick! it reminds me of seeing these old computer programs that aphex twin would use to make his music back in the 90s

Carnival is crazy! I want to try it! Noise music gona love this!

I definitely think this will help get people out their heads and into the music. The "limitations" of the workflow would probably make me feel a lot less dependent on the end result. I'm genuinely excited to get my hands on this. I can go with the flow here and take it into FL Studio as a sample.

I like this approach. It seems minimalist and simple (once you've got the basics), but with endless possibilities and few limitations.

Great video! Your presentation is very on-point, honest, and not dumbed-down. Sharing your enthusiasm, not making an ad. Appreciated!

I really like the idea behind this UI.

Workflow is king and queen and this is a fascinating approach to changing the traditional workflow for multitrack sound. I'll keep a keen eye on this product, as stated it seems fantastic for sound design as it appears to make you work within a different paradigm.

sounds good. almost sounds like something fever ray would use i hope they find this

thank you for showing this off, this is sick!

It’s cool, thanks for figuring it out for us!

It kinda reminds me of a video editing program. Every block is it's own independent unit with it's own independent effects chain and settings, even if it's on the same "track". The lanes concept is awesome. I also really like how it seems *waveform based* and how everything makes waveforms that you can see and then you click on and manipulate like they're a .wav you loaded up, even if it's actually just the middle of an effects chain, which would be insanely painful to do on a traditional DAW if not impossible. In exchange for that, it seems like it's made all the basic easy stuff you could do in a DAW really painful. I'm curious to see if this DAW takes off before someone else sees the lane system and says, "why don't we make that a VST," or "we should make an instrument in our DAW that works like that". Similar to how basically anytime one DAW gets something really cool and unique, 6-18 months later every DAW has their own version of it.

This app seems really freeing and even if I don't use it as my primary DAW I can see it's usefulness for creating new sounds. I became a supporter after this so thank you for the demo!!

As somebody who knows a bit about how DAWs and Audio DSP work, this is an incredibly inventive and innovative approach to sound design... I need this.

Thats great, thanks. More please.

this is interesting. cool video! always fun too see a video not about the same stuff everyone else is doing lol even if its all stuff you can do in reaper using takes and free lane positioning (outside of the carnival thing). The only difference being the way you implement the effects, you would have to use bypass envelopes for it, but still doable. I guess the creative advantage here being the workflow. Even the loopback recording is available via the global sampler script. All that said, the way the effects are implemented gave me some cool ideas to try in reaper!

Randomized 'Drum Computer' beats fed into 'Blockhead', more randomizing, samples made and fed back into 'Drum Computer' and so on...

This feels like an evolved thing from Cubase's old *Direct Offline Processing* (which can be done per individual clip or how ever many selected, but can still be reverted back how ever many steps) I can't really agree on "not knowing your way around" being helpful if you are surgical in your sound design, since you really need to know the tools and where to access them. BUT. If you rely heavily on "happy accidents" in the production. Sure, a new "confusing" thing can be helpful I guess. This is interesting nonetheless

Great video and demonstration! Kind of seems a bit lackluster, but if they flesh it out a little more I could see it being really cool. It kind of reminds me of Audiomulch or something, but hopefully won't stagnate in development as much as that did :)

Damn. That is pretty much like adjustment clips in Video editing. 😲

Ok.... I'm sitting here watching this and..... I found myself filled with somewhat giddy wonder! I use Reaper and love it,but this is just crazy enough to bubble up some new juices.....👍

oh snap he got audio inputs working! TO THE LAB!!!!!

First I've seen of this so thanks for posting about it -- I've got interested in non-traditional workflows recently and this one looks tremendous.

Thank you...Wonderfully creative, and super interesting.

This shit's fucking wild. So glad I clicked this link

That's it I'm creating a new moniker to release blockhead tracks with named: "no icon"

Feels like an invitation to break from the formulaic. I’m in.

this looks incredible, thanks for sharing

Two Tempos what was this madlad on thats wild

This looks fresh. A cool tool to get or stay creative. At least for new inspiration. I like unconventional concepts - whether good or bad, they are innovative to begin with.

Love the multi-tempo guide idea in a DAW! Midicake ARP can do this for MIDI.

A brilliant video. Really helpful too. Many thanks!

Awesome thanks bud

that carbibal thing is the wetdream portion of this..omg its insane!

This is like a super neat Visual Scripting interface for Audio in a Game Engine.

thanks for sharing, this looks awesome.

Fun fact: there's a great US HipHop producer named Blockhead. Highly recommend a listen.

this is really cool, well made video

That looks awesome

Most intriguing. The future DAW or … a DAW within a DAW.. Certainly very unique.

the noise generator is similar to Aparillo synth, its not as complicated as you think. its actually very simple to understand.

This is definitely cool but you can achieve this in Reaper using the global sampler script. Totally a game changer and I like it a lot

Wow, what a unique approach to the DAW!

Ivy Lab just dropped a new single called "blockhead" ...wander if they used this thing

2:10 "Destructive." It's not changing the original samples. So no, it's really not.

Audacity is destructive. I would even call this non destructive Audacity.

space is play/stop tab is "play from where the mouse is"

omg it has an in-built rolling sampler

First thing I notice is this: it’s brilliant cos it concretises invisible fx.

There was software during 2000 that gave you the ability to make strange sounds, this reminds me of that.

deffo had a burial/ fred again vibe to it

It's magix music maker, the first one. Just without the grid. I really liked editing with magix.

This would be sick with MIDI and plugin support.

It looks like most control of the daw is the mouse. If this comes to raspberry pi this would be perfect for the uconsole

I love this daw, y'know, because of the implication.

Looks very interesting. I'd check it out if it wasn't for 'Usine Hollyhock'. I frickin' love that software.

Looks so interesting !!

This is like playing a 2D game in a 3D platform

All of this stuff is super easy to do in Ableton.

I wonder how importing and exporting stems would work, because it looks like automation and stem processing would be fun

The musician's gonna flip and get mad. The sound designer will do a cartwheel. 😂

seems like fun

Waiting for the day that someone makes a cover of blockhead by DEVO using blockhead

This would be dope for sample based songs

So dope

Would love that carnival thing as a vst :o

This would be great for workflow with modular synths.

It looks good for fx making software

check out Bespoke Synth it's another really weird DAW

RECORD a song you WANT TO sampleee. PULL your CHOPPPSssss!

something for experimental artists for a change.

The concept that music has evoled so much blows my mind. Songs used to be different by the instruments you would play, then it became what your sheet music was made songs differ, then synths came along and songs interchanged as they were playing and now songs differ depending on the daw you use to record them. Shits pretty wild

I thought this was a reference to the legendary producer Blockhead himself 😭

I wish the dev did something equally weird & inspiring with MIDI. I'd buy a DAW like this in a heartbeat :)

This would be so sick as a VST with multi out, or maybe even an auv3 on iPad.

Dude I've been following blackhead since .12, it's gone so far as an independent project