This bizarre experimental DAW is a sound designer's wet dream [blockhead]

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In an age where every DAW is super streamlined for production, one developer dares head in the opposite direction with "blockhead", an experimental DAW that embraces the idea of breaking all the rules.

Find blockhead at the developer's Patreon page:

00:00 Intro to Blockhead
00:47 Workspace
01:34 Destructive Clip Editing
02:44 Lane Effects
04:50 Multiple Simultaneous Tempos
06:37 Block Synth
08:38 Carnival (Noise Generator)
09:33 Loopback Recording
10:51 Final thoughts
12:49 Demo (Outro)
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This feels like opening up a DAW for the first time as a kid, I kinda wanna try it haha

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

CypiXmusic
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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.

Cassanti
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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.

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

kevinkrebs
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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.

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

timdanyo
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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

theorize
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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.

JoshuaDb_The_Witness
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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.

GeorgeLocke
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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!

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

nicstoohigh
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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.

Vegan_Kebab_In_My_Hand
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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.🎉.

bangkokcanon
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Wild... Gonna have to look more into this...
Thanks for revealing!

AuskellMusic
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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.

Joey_Headset
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Polyrhythmic music would go crazy in this

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

lev
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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!!

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

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