The workflow of Song Maker – Music Mixer, based on the idea of combining built-in samples and presets, makes it more of a game and less of a DAW. If you’re a beginner who wants to learn the basics of music production, Song Maker – Music Mixer is the perfect app. So what would work for sure is any of the cloud-based DAWs that are out there, and there are a few.Even though Song Maker – Music Mixer is flawed (many users have complained about performance and exporting issues), there’s no doubt it’s a fun-to-use and extremely intuitive entry-level DAW.

And then of course it has a fully functioning web-browser. The idea is that you are supposed to have a google account and you can use the chromebook to log into google and move files around in your cloud drive, edit google sheets/docs, etc. Then you just need to sort out some 3rd party VSTs (I imagine Airwindows stuff would work).Īnyways, my understanding of Chrome OS is that it does most stuff in the cloud. If you get say a 64gig flashdrive and set Reaper up to save and render directly to the flashdrive and keep all your samples/recordings on there, then you can keep a lot of that data off the limited chromebook storage. Though again, with Reaper, I think you can install it to a flashdrive as a portable program and run it on any compatible computer you plug it into. Not a lot of room to store samples/recordings/renders, or to install software for that matter.

Not sure how large chrome OS or a Linux distro would be, but let’s say after formatting and getting an OS you have 16 gigs left. Setting aside the issue of processing power/compatibility, you only have 32 gigs of storage to work with. So assuming you can get something like Reaper on there, I bet it could be made to run. Looking at the kind of Chromebook I would want to buy (say USD 300 and under), I’m surprised to find that some of these are running an X86-64 compatible CPU (which is the same as you would be running on Windows), though they are low-spec for 4-5 years ago.

Fl studio chromebook