And yes, that means it's pretty essential if you want to get your music from your head onto your computer. What's a DAW, and Why Is It So Important?Ī DAW is important to a recording musician like a canvas is important to a visual artist. With the rise of prominence of the Digital Audio Workstation - often shortened to DAW - what once took hundreds of thousands of dollars, lots of space, and hours of work from multiple staff members, now takes a few minutes, a computer with a few gigabytes of available hard drive space, and a couple hundred dollars. The idea that entire recording studios would be available at one's fingertips would've been considered absurd twenty years ago, but that's precisely what has happened.
