Would You Write Music By Hand If You Didn't Have A DAW ?

[echo fetish]

Yes. I'd have to. If I don't make music I cant function. But with no formal training & decades of bad habits, I find audio recordings to be the most accurate method of documentation. I can't understand my own written scores when looking back later.

[Tj Shredder]

I just play music instead of writing it...

[fairlyclose]

Using a DAW or computer makes absolutely no difference to whether I make music or not. Affects how I make music but not if I make music.
"writing by hand" is neither here nor there for me either - I used to write a lot of scores when performing with other musicians, maybe I would go back to that. Very few of those scores looked like typical old style classical western notation because few of the musicians I wrote for read common notation all that well and also there was no need or desire to be that precise.
Also that form of notation does not produce music I am all that interested in producing. But if it did, I would use it.

[chk071]

I'm good. I immediately knew who created the topic, just looking at the title.

[digitalboytn]

I still write my string parts out by hand...

I like the passive feeling of a pencil and manuscript...

But I might start writing them in a scoring program so that I can just shift everything across to the DAW...

[digitalboytn]

But the real question is...

Would you write music by foot if you didn't have a hand ?

[CinningBao]

I would write music by the metre, not by the foot.

[jamcat]

Clever!

[Teksonik]

Would you write more music if you didn't waste time creating so many silly threads on an internet forum?

[THE INTRANCER]

Would you write more music if you didn't waste time creating so many silly threads on an internet forum?

No more than someone who replies to threads that they think are silly.

[pekbro]

I don't write music down, no one else is ever going to try and play it, and I don't need to write it down to remember it, so there is no need. I only even multi-track when I can't play (or operate), all the parts at the same time. Since I am primarily hardware based, I don't even need to use a DAW unless I want. Mostly I use them to record two tracks, left and right

*Funny part is that I own (tho not all up to date) 11 DAWS or something ridiculous like that.
I do like DAWs...

[Teksonik]

Would you write more music if you didn't waste time creating so many silly threads on an internet forum?

No more than someone who replies to threads that they think are silly.

I wouldn't have replied if you hadn't wasted time starting yet another silly thread. Go find another hobby.

[THE INTRANCER]

I wouldn't have replied if you hadn't wasted time starting yet another silly thread. Go find another hobby.

Other people have contributed some interesting replies to this thread in how they operate, so if you have nothing interesting to add, please exit the thread for those that may do.

[thecontrolcentre]

I would do what I've always done. Perform and record using whatever tech is available to me.
Bit of a pointless question all the same

[Teksonik]

I wouldn't have replied if you hadn't wasted time starting yet another silly thread. Go find another hobby.

Other people have contributed some interesting replies to this thread in how they operate, so if you have nothing interesting to add, please exit the thread for those that may do.

I've already contributed something positive....go make some music and stop making silly threads. Or at least put them in the Everything Else forum where they belong.

I'm going to go make some music in a couple of minutes after I check KVR to see if there are any threads today that are actually useful.