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I get that.

I guess I wound up toward the dawless end of the spectrum because I didn’t buy an iPad or another laptop…electronic music requires hardware either way I think.

Where I am at right now, it helps to remove software from the picture.

If the DAW solved audio and midi signal routing, then it would be a friction for friction trade off. But the daw doesn’t eliminate cables and configuration…VST’s excepted.

I have a Tascam DP 006 and the QX5 for recording. The QX will loop, transpose, and rechannel MIDI too.

Basically, I can do everything I think I want to do without a laptop.

That could easily change of course.

Dawless is an engineering design choice not an ideological hill I would die on.