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Oh ah it's a word you use when you see something adorable like a box of puppies no that's wrong Dawes our digital audio workstations and in no way adorable unless you know you're into that kind of thing well either way moving on DAWs are used in production of basically everything from soundtracks for movies albums voiceovers podcasts and so on much like video editing the first audio editing involved recording - and splicing tape and unfortunately that's really how it stayed until the late 1970s before then computers just didn't have the processing power or storage speeds needed to edit audio then sound streams stepped in with what they called the digital editing system it used a special mini computer running custom software package and operating system the system was capable of moving and crossfading between audio clips which for a time was pretty dang cool and significantly easier than splicing tape not long after this in the 1980s consumer computers were becoming powerful enough to run their own dawes digi designs sound tools and sounded designer could be hooked up to a computer for editing audio samples and yes people were sampling back in the 80s this in fact started a huge dispute over copyright laws over sampling and shortly after this major record labels all started going digital digit design answered this digital revolution with their legendary software Pro Tools which quickly became and is still to this day the industry standard DAW this was however expensive because pro tools require dedicated hardware for audio processing it wasn't until 1993 that a German company called Steinberg released the first da that broke away from dedicated hardware but what kind of hardware do you need to mix and edit audio you could have something as simple as an entry-level USB mic like the blue Yeti connected to a computer but studios usually have much larger mixing consoles capable of receiving a multitude of controllable audio sources so is there a benefit to this other than just being able to record lots of stuff at once of course a recurring theme across many topics is the benefits of dedicated equipment just like having a dedicated graphics card in a computer using a dead compressor mic amp or mixer makes a big difference in sound and performance so by performance you mean moving and cutting up sounds right well almost like video editing there's lots of possibilities and DAWs come in tons of different flavors many DAWs allow you to synthesize and create your own instruments from scratch and in some cases break away from the timeline editing view we are so used to Ableton Live is a perfect example since you store your ideas and blocks and can activate them with a controller each button playing a different segment of your song programs like FL studio a well-known da for PC allows the user to store ideas and segments in a side Bank as loops and pull them into the timeline whenever they're needed then there's programs like Pro Tools sonar and logic which are more closely designed to emulate analog equipment giving the operator similar set of controls to playing a physical mixing console ironically that means the industry standard digital audio workstations are actually emulating the analog audio workstations that they replaced so what's next and should we really expect many changes in the future for audio editing well that's actually a pretty good possibility many smaller DAWs are moving towards modularity with third-party plugins that are there to make the creative process easier for the producer or artist however with the r8 analog audio is changing which is too slow for even a clever metaphor I wouldn't expect the toppdogg industry-standard DAWs to change up anytime soon Dollar Shave Club you guys know Dollar Shave Club get razors and other bathroom supplies shipped directly to your door for only a few bucks a month it's fairly simple you can get razors dr. Carver's shave butter one wipe Charlies post shave moisturizer travel sized varieties of all those different things they have a variety of razors as well all the way up to their six blade executive just in case you have a very high end beard no need for vibrating handles or any of that other nonsense just high-quality razors and other bathroom supplies directly to your door once a month check out dollarshaveclub.com slash lioness to sign up in the US Canada or Australia alright guys thanks for watching this great being here again like the video if you liked it dislike if you disliked it we've got really cool stuff coming on channel super fun Star Wars just came out we have a lightsaber battle coming go check it out on channel super fun comment down below with any video suggestions you'd like us to do and don't forget to subscribe and follow