I’ve had a similar mental approach as this, except Ableton for Bitwig.
Biggest revelation I’ve had recently though is;
Write Drunk, Edit Sober.
I’ve always been guilty of mixing up these 2 stages, and it’s been a pain in the ass for me.
To me now;
Write Drunk = Play and record audio, mess about, but keep recording stuff… for this to happen I can’t just use a DAW/ITB set up.
I want synths, mics, guitars, drum machines, etc, but still want it compact and want to avoid option paralysis.
Edit Sober = this can be primarily ITB, away from the distraction of sound sources… knowing and understanding the task at hand is to make sense of the Drunk stage and give it some order is my favourite workflow now.
I also really liked Ricki Tinez’s video on the 1 synth, 1 sampler, 1 drum machine approach.
Even though I can’t quite commit to just 1, it’s good to minimise and keep that in mind.