RECORDING Field Notes - History of the Digital Audio Workstation

Before the DAW…

…there was the AAW (Analog Audio Workstation)—aka, the recording studio!

But it didn’t just appear fully formed; it came in bits and bobs, little by little over the years, branching into what we know today as the DAW—the ultimate expression of a recording studio crammed into your laptop. If we had known back at the start what was coming, it would have blown our minds.