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  • I think you’re missing the point a bit.

    In modern audio production, there’s nearly always a laptop or something involved. The alternative approach is known as a “no computer”/“DAW-less” approach, where you replace everything a computer would be doing, with outboard hardware.

    Also worth highlighting It’s not necessarily about being 100% analog. For example, at the end of the day a eurorack trigger signal is obviously digital by nature, but it’s also nothing to do with a computer. You only need a couple of transistors, resistors and a capacitor to make a square wave oscillator after all

    The screen you’re pointing out is part of an Arturia BeatStep Pro which is a MIDI controller. It is also probably the only thing in his rig pictured that comes close to that. Most of the modules in the rig have build videos on his channel, and you can see they are not dressed up raspberry pis or anything like that, and basically all analog components.

    Now sure you could fence out a minimum viable computer definition that allows you to call anything with a microcontroller a computer, but you’d be including things like TV remote controls, car keys and microwave ovens.