Worst DAW with a bad workflow is who?

[SadPuppyBlues]

Including dealing with issues like Plugin Delay Compensation, Ableton Live takes the cake, hands down. Absolute worst.

Not including that, the worst thing I've ever seen, even compared to Jeskola Buzz, is Reaper.

[C-note]

No doubt for me - Reaper

[dune_rave]

Not agree - Reaper is cool for me and Yeah, Jeskola Buzz is great too!
In these days I prefer not using Jeskola Buzz but inserting a tracker vsti into Reaper...
The worst DAW for me was -if I can say such thing - MadTracker.

[tongsong]

sonar, since X1

[Aiynzahev]

Nothing wrong with AdLib/OPL sound from back in the PC XT days
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEb5vJwYn-c

Man this is neat

Some knarly bassliness there

[Aiynzahev]

Id rather use Reaper than Reason

[Nielzie]

sonar, since X1

Never tried X1, but X2 works pretty awesome here

[hibidy]

Rejoice in that teh answers is now simply ME!

Teh hosts are workingz so WELL lately

[IncarnateX]

All daws are amazing. The problem is the idiots using them.

[woggle]

Reaper is both pretty awful and okay. There are lots of inconsistencies such as ctrl+drag meaning copy sometimes and not others, or grouping only grouping some features and not others. On the other hand if you put in the time you can fix up things like the fiddly item edge resizing through using mouse modifiers. And maybe the other inconsistencies can be fixed by hacking some macros or writing an extension.

[rifftrax]

there is NO SUCH THING AS A BAD DAW-arggghhh...they all have their strong points,its entirely down to the users preference on which side of the fence he wants to piss on

I dunno, SAWstudio is honestly a laughably "bad" DAW as far as I can tell.

[hibidy]

Reaper is both pretty awful and okay. There are lots of inconsistencies such as ctrl+drag meaning copy sometimes and not others, or grouping only grouping some features and not others. On the other hand if you put in the time you can fix up things like the fiddly item edge resizing through using mouse modifiers. And maybe the other inconsistencies can be fixed by hacking some macros or writing an extension.

I know what you mean. I had issues where copying regions would produce less than desirable results (usually one random note at the beginning) and it was time consuming fixing it. NEVER could I just fix the one note, it always required deleting that clip, starting over and THEN copying that region and hope for the best.

That's not people being idiots, but then again, there's always going to be a handful of people that think they are so special.

[Nielzie]

The worst DAWS are the ones that outsmart you

[woggle]

Reaper is both pretty awful and okay.....

I know what you mean. I had issues where copying regions would produce less than desirable results (usually one random note at the beginning) and it was time consuming fixing it. NEVER could I just fix the one note, it always required deleting that clip, starting over and THEN copying that region and hope for the best.

That's not people being idiots, but then again, there's always going to be a handful of people that think they are so special.

Reaper has a very old school / tech oriented design that sits well outside modern UX design practice. It always will I think, and some people love that approach.

[metamorphosis]

It has a spaghetti-code design - well-maintained, but not terribly balanced. Winamp was the same - great back-end, terribly-designed interface.