How do YOU pronouce the letters DAW?

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  1. Will Kweks

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    Going off topic, but did Logic ever exist on ST? I wasn't an Atari user, I thought it was Notator or Creator that people used (from eMagic, that is).
     
  2. krameri

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    I found this. The creator of the video said it's an Atari STI.
     
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  3. Melodic Reality

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    Dove or duh
     
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    ok you see a cute kitten in a little ball
    and you
    "awwww" now just pop a dA in front of that and you Get dAAwwwe or DAW

    are DAW's (Digital audio Workstation) yes daw is an anagram

    but i digress

    are Daws Sequencers in the early days yes. much easier to sequence on a computer than say Roland MSQ100

    these days they are still sequencers but soooo much more recorders/ audio processors/arrangers on have the ability to host gigantic sound paletes

    something your old school sequencer just cant do
     
  5. mk_96

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    i call it D beacause my time is too valuable to waste on two more letters. And it's also fun to say "My D is frozen" or "My D is better than yours, and more expensive".

    Jokes aside, it depends. If i'm talking or reading in spanish i just say it as an entire word, that seems to be the concensus around my country, which would sound something like "cow", but with d instead of c. If it's in english, then i spell it out.

    some call it split personality. I call it "the spanglish switcheroo".
     
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    damn. im grateful i didnt have to use the struggle version of logic, that shit looks tragic
     
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    I say 'door'...
    coz some of 'em sometimes open v e r y slowly.
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    ba-dum tish
     
  8. The Retro Bassist

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    Since it's an abbreviation, it could either be an initialism (spelling each letter) or an acronym (spelling it as a word). I've always spelled it as a word.
     
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  9. Lad Impala

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    yep, its my initials, too
     
  11. krameri

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    I learned a new word from you. Thanks! :)
     
  12. The Retro Bassist

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    Don't mention it, I'm always learning something new here as well (like how a lot of people are into making beats, EDM, trap, etc, I had no idea LOL).
     
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    Evil people: speak D-A-W
    Good people: speak "Duh"
     
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  15. mercurysoto

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    I might be speaking out of my ass here, but the term workstation must have been derived from the keyboard workstations that were used to arrange whole songs in MIDI, in which case, audio sequencer may be the right term.
     
  16. Haze

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    I find I pronounce it FFS quite a lot of the time..
     
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    Yeah I know - I played with the Atari Falcon way back myself :yes: but the funny thing about this is the fact sequensers were called sequensers long after they´ve started integrate real audio (wavs).....

    Basic line:
    Regardless of how you pronounce DAW, at one point or another you will probably have to say the name of your DAW, and then the pronunciation is probably rather inferior imho.

    51 is not being old - that starts after you have reached 60 and over :bleh:
     
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    I simply pronounce it "Reaper". :wink:

    Yeah, 51 is not being old. Old is when... errr... what was I saying?
     
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  19. thantrax

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    Dii Ei Wu
     
  20. Lois Lane

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    You're soo wrong, it's pronounced "Dii Ei Woo".

    Really, dude!
     
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