What about personal freedoms? Is eroding our individual rights really worth criminalizing something like coffee just because it might be physically addictive?
I'm not an expert at recording but in my experience trying to do anything live with a DAW is next to impossible due to latency issues. It would probably just be easier to record into the daw then spend a few seconds in the gui to loop it properly.
> trying to do anything live with a DAW is next to impossible due to latency issues.
It takes a little effort (and sometimes money), but you can definitely get latency low enough to be able to use the DAW live. Consider that almost every electronic artist playing music on stage today is using Ableton Live.
The basic components are:
1. Make sure your OS's drivers aren't introducing too much latency. I hear horror stories about the default audio drivers on Windows but as a Mac user I've never had to worry about this.
2. Make the buffer size small in your DAW. DAWs process audio a block of samples at a time because it's much kinder to the CPU's cache and gives you better overall throughput. But chunking obviously adds latency because you don't hear a single sample from the buffer until the entire buffer is done. Controlling the buffer size lets you make the latency/performance trade-off wherever you want.
At a 48k sample rate, each sample is ~0.02 milliseconds long. So a buffer size of 1,024 adds 21ms of latency, which is low enough for doing things like tweaking effects and arranging live, but high enough that you will definitely notice it if you're playing individual notes on an instrument. Dropping the buffer size down to 128 gets you down to ~2.6ms of latency, which is essentially unnoticeable.
3. Make sure your audio interface doesn't introduce too much latency. You can find sites that measure this precisely. My experience on my Mac is that even my cheap Focusrite audio interface is low enough to work fine. If you really get into this, you can spend extra money and get interfaces with lower latency.
the boss rc series kills. if you're a beginner, i'd recommend the rc-1. it's very basic, but this is a good thing at first. you'll want to get yourself to the point where you can click it on and off in time with the music, making a multi-bar sequence that stays in time without any quantization. don't even worry about midi to begin with, just sync yourself up with your own playing. looping seamlessly is its own musical skill.
once you get to be more of a wizard, you'll want things like backwards playback and multitrack looping and midi sync. you could progress toward more advanced boss pedals, or start looking at things like the electroharmonix 95000 (i have one, i bought it because i saw a video of reggie watts using one)
it's always gonna be a tradeoff between simplicity and complexity, and honestly more complex isn't always better. i find myself reaching for the rc-1 way more than the ehx95000 because it's so simple. just experiment, figure out how YOU like to loop. there's no right or wrong way. the gear should make you want to keep playing. if it doesn't, trade it in for something else. don't burn too much time deciding.
I was raised in a fairly religious household and taught to respect everyone including everyone in the lgbtq community
This was in the south as well. I grew up in the 90s if that means anything.
