What Is Your Most Productive Set Up/Workflow?

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@CCMP

I think I’m always looking for THE set up that offers the best all round balance

This is mine, from the hybrid setup thread:

Hybrid (HW+SW) set-up's that work for you?

This is where I’m at currently. [setup March 2021] I only have a certain amount of stuff out at any one time - I just don’t have the room, the inputs or the headspace to do more. I’m trying to do an EP’s worth of tracks with one setup at a time before swapping anything out. I’m using an iMac connected to an Apollo Twin X. The Apollo is connected to a Focusrite Octopre Dynamic MkII via ADAT for a total of 10 inputs (48kHz / 24bit). One of the Apollo outputs is driving the clock on the E-RM Mu…

This has been significantly more productive for me than any of my past setups. Having the UAD plugins on the channels on the way in shortcuts a lot of faffing about in the DAW, while the E-RM multiclock means I can jam with or without the computer, but when recording it’s all bang on the grid all the time and I never worry about sync, latency etc.

The only thing I’m looking to change is to add a satellite UAD processor so I can run more plugins at once and stop worrying about DSP resource while I’m trying to create.