We were pretty much forced to do this month’s cover feature, when four new hardware units claiming to be able to ‘make entire tunes’ turned up at the same time. So, can it really be that after all these years of software taking over from hardware, that computer-based DAWs will be replaced? I mean, really? Well, we’ve seen the comeback of hardware synths, and some might add topend outboard; heck some even say tape (but those people tend to live in loft apartments listening to cassettes in an ironic way, so let’s discount them). So a hard return could be ‘a thing’ in this upsidedown world where everyone is looking back with facemasksteamed spectacles.
“We’ll be knocking out beats on skulls”