Your first DAW !
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- KVRAF
- 10592 posts since 20 Nov, 2003 from Lost and Spaced
I got Ableton Live Lite on a magazine CD. I could not really get into it. I'm pretty sure it was because of decades of using FL.
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- KVRer
- 13 posts since 12 Apr, 2024
My first DAW was magix music maker, and I wish it wasn't. 
Some of the worst support I've ever seen, no ability to side-chain plugins, but one of the cheapest and coolest starter plugin libraries I've seen (so long as you buy one of the top bundles) HOWEVER:
ALL OF IT IS LOCKED, EVEN THE LOOPS, TO MAGIX MUSIC MAKER.
You can't even use it with other magix software, like vegas.
Went to Ableton Live 11 as soon as I could on the recommendation of a better musician and I never looked back.
Some of the worst support I've ever seen, no ability to side-chain plugins, but one of the cheapest and coolest starter plugin libraries I've seen (so long as you buy one of the top bundles) HOWEVER:
ALL OF IT IS LOCKED, EVEN THE LOOPS, TO MAGIX MUSIC MAKER.
You can't even use it with other magix software, like vegas.
Went to Ableton Live 11 as soon as I could on the recommendation of a better musician and I never looked back.
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- KVRian
- 693 posts since 18 Sep, 2010
Challenging question!
I had some sound utilities for a RS Color Computer. Then much later Soundfont stuff for an early SoundBlaster, early MAGIX and MIDIsoft software. ACID, Fruity Loops. Actual DAW? Maybe Cakewalk.
I had some sound utilities for a RS Color Computer. Then much later Soundfont stuff for an early SoundBlaster, early MAGIX and MIDIsoft software. ACID, Fruity Loops. Actual DAW? Maybe Cakewalk.
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- KVRian
- 765 posts since 5 Jun, 2001
Cubase in 2000 when i got my first PC
but started on Atari ST with Cubase in 1995
but started on Atari ST with Cubase in 1995
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Scrubbing Monkeys Scrubbing Monkeys https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=397259 - KVRAF
- 1602 posts since 21 Apr, 2017 from Bahia, Brazil
Cakewalk by Two tone in The early 90s. More of a mídi sequencer really. Later Cakewalk wirh audio in a Professional setting. Lots of crashes due tô Windows IRQ conflicts
Then in the early 2000s started again wirh Adobe Audition.
Then In 2010 I had a stupid complex setup using Live, Reason and Logic rewired together mixing into Mixbus......how ridiculous.
In 2014 I swithched to Reaper which has been my main daw since. I do like Mulab better for creating music. It is just faster and more inspirational. Starting tô mess with tracktion Waveform 12. Pretty cool workflow só far but a lil quirky in placas.
All that said....For The most part I use a daw like a tape machine recording rock and folk sruff. I dable in EDM and Synthwave from time tô time on Mulab.
Really like Mulab for making modular instruments and fx.
Then in the early 2000s started again wirh Adobe Audition.
Then In 2010 I had a stupid complex setup using Live, Reason and Logic rewired together mixing into Mixbus......how ridiculous.
In 2014 I swithched to Reaper which has been my main daw since. I do like Mulab better for creating music. It is just faster and more inspirational. Starting tô mess with tracktion Waveform 12. Pretty cool workflow só far but a lil quirky in placas.
All that said....For The most part I use a daw like a tape machine recording rock and folk sruff. I dable in EDM and Synthwave from time tô time on Mulab.
Really like Mulab for making modular instruments and fx.
We jumped the fence because it was a fence not be cause the grass was greener.
https://scrubbingmonkeys.bandcamp.com/
https://sites.google.com/view/scrubbing-monkeys
https://scrubbingmonkeys.bandcamp.com/
https://sites.google.com/view/scrubbing-monkeys
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- KVRAF
- 8837 posts since 6 Jan, 2017 from Outer Space
My first computer was an Apple ][ clone. I had an MPU-401 I guess there was some basic Midi sequencing going on. I got hooked on Opcode Max 2 pretty early. I can't remember if Studio Vision or Session 8 was my first real DAW. Before I had a AAW in form of a Fostex 8-Track tape recorder, which I could sync to the Max and Midi stuff...
My first granular synthesizer was an Akai S-612. I think that was before granular was even invented... (I moved the start and end point of the sample loop by hand which created short grains...)
My first granular synthesizer was an Akai S-612. I think that was before granular was even invented... (I moved the start and end point of the sample loop by hand which created short grains...)
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- KVRist
- 187 posts since 10 Nov, 2012
MasterTracks Pro on a Mac Plus. And I wish I could still use it for midi. Nothing I've used since then, DP, PT, Reaper, holds a candle to it for midi workflow. Everything was smooth, nothing required jumping through hoops or changing modes to edit. You couldn't do the million things that Reaper can do, 90% of which have no impact on my tweaking of tracks, and I could add and edit controller info with a directness and ease that Reaper says I don't need to have.
As far as audio recording DAW it would have to be ProDeck and ProEdit. (The precursor to Protools which was released in a state that could only be described as interesting but completely useless for real work. I wasn't the person investing in it, though, so I held on through all the versions of PT that followed until AVID went subscription and was happy to have that skill under my belt as I looked for greener pastures)
As far as audio recording DAW it would have to be ProDeck and ProEdit. (The precursor to Protools which was released in a state that could only be described as interesting but completely useless for real work. I wasn't the person investing in it, though, so I held on through all the versions of PT that followed until AVID went subscription and was happy to have that skill under my belt as I looked for greener pastures)
