Which DAW is fastest to load?
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 2957 posts since 27 Aug, 2004
It seems like Studio One takes forever to load. Bitwig takes less time, Cakewalk is even faster. Is there another DAW which is faster to load?
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- KVRAF
- 2989 posts since 5 Nov, 2014
Reaper
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- KVRian
- 1286 posts since 7 Dec, 2013 from Earth
FL Studio is only fast because it doesn't check for new or updated plugins at startup. You need to do it manually every time and their plugin scanner is extremely slow.
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- KVRist
- 146 posts since 28 Jul, 2020
I have set the deferred load plugins option in live but it still loads much slower than fl studio for me. From my experience FL studio has the most snappy UI even with all the bells and whistles turned on.
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- KVRian
- 700 posts since 19 Jan, 2008
Here it loads really fast. I suggest you turn off vst scan at launch and update it from plugins manager only when you add new plugins.
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- Banned
- 11467 posts since 4 Jan, 2017 from Warsaw, Poland
Yes.
Otherwise, Reaper you can google, install and launch while other DAWs - except maybe FL - are still showing the splash screen
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- KVRist
- 42 posts since 23 Aug, 2018
Fl Studio and Waveform are definitely the fastest, but as others have said FL Studio starts fast because it does not automatically scan plugs. Waveform opens just as fast unless it has detected new plugs and then it takes longer to complete the startup.
In regards to Studio One, with my old PC which was a 10 year old I7 gen 1, originally Windows 7 updated to Windows 10. Studio One used to take more than 2 minutes to get going. However, my new PC whilst still I7, is a 10th gen with 16 cores instead of 4. My program drive is an nvme M.2 SSD and I have Studio One setup to scan on startup every time. On the new PC it takes all of 11 seconds to get going.
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- Banned
- 11467 posts since 4 Jan, 2017 from Warsaw, Poland
But is it consistent?
On my laptop - that I power off completely for the night - plugins scan (it says 548, although this includes various formats & bit depths) lasts 15-20s normally, but almost 2 minutes when I launch it after cold boot.
I really wish Presonus added background plugin scanning like Bitwig does, for example (Ableton seems to have added it also, but it still scans something at the start).
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- KVRAF
- 35325 posts since 14 Sep, 2002 from In teh net
Waveform, followed by Reaper and Bitwig
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- KVRAF
- 8802 posts since 7 Oct, 2005
For a project with few tracks, for me, Reaper by far is the fastest. The slowest is Studio One while Live and Cubase are much better than Studio One but I think Live is little bit faster than Cubase.
When You close a DAW, still Reaper is the fastest and Cubase is the slowest. But all of that is not important for me. The performance and the workflow what counts mostly. Here I'm fastest with Cubase and slowest with Reaper! So, in the end, Cubase is the fastest for me overall with Studio One second
When You close a DAW, still Reaper is the fastest and Cubase is the slowest. But all of that is not important for me. The performance and the workflow what counts mostly. Here I'm fastest with Cubase and slowest with Reaper! So, in the end, Cubase is the fastest for me overall with Studio One second
