POLL: Which DAW would you choose if all things were equal?

[tommyzai]

What I mean by "all things equal" is . . . same cost (lets say $100), cross-platform (PC/Mac/Linux), and you have ZERO prior experience/investment with any any of them (but you do have your eMusic experience/not a total beginner).

1. Vote/Choose (two per for those conflicted, and you can change your vote)
2. Please explain your reason. Why?

[jancivil]

Zero interest in other than Cubendo. There are a couple of reasons to use Nuendo if picture is involved, but one of them is in Cubase 10 now.

[dupont]

reaper

[thecontrolcentre]

Live

[Etienne1973]

Logic Pro X. I'm an acoustic/electric guitar player. I appreciate the old-school linear approach like a tape machine for audio and the advanced MIDI handling for some backing tracks. Best of both worlds so to speak for me.

[enroe]

What I mean by "all things equal" is . . . same cost (lets say $100), cross-platform (PC/Mac/Linux), and you have ZERO prior experience/investment with any any of them (but you do have your eMusic experience/not a total beginner).

I would analyze all DAWs. The main points were 1. Features and
2. Ergonomy. And finally the top dog is:

Apple Logic Pro X

Why?

It really has all features you can guess or you've ever heard of.
And you can create a marvellous super fast workflow. In the early
2000s Logic had already most of the features which are now
implemented into other DAWs - in painful development. Also
the folder-structure enables you to use Logic in a linear way
(old tape-machine-procedure) or in a pattern-based way (for
electronic guys).

But ... there is one disadvantage: Logic comes with the biggest
dongle you can imagine: The whole Mac is the dongle! And
you are forced to buy a new dongle every two years if you
wanna be up to date.

[andypryce]

What I mean by "all things equal" is . . . same cost (lets say $100), cross-platform (PC/Mac/Linux), and you have ZERO prior experience/investment with any any of them (but you do have your eMusic experience/not a total beginner).

I would analyze all DAWs. The main points were 1. Features and
2. Ergonomy. And finally the top dog is:

Apple Logic Pro X

Why?

It really has all features you can guess or you've ever heard of.
And you can create a marvellous super fast workflow. In the early
2000s Logic had already most of the features which are now
implemented into other DAWs - in painful development. Also
the folder-structure enables you to use Logic in a linear way
(old tape-machine-procedure) or in a pattern-based way (for
electronic guys).

But ... there is one disadvantage: Logic comes with the biggest
dongle you can imagine: The whole Mac is the dongle! And
you are forced to buy a new dongle every two years if you
wanna be up to date.

Why change every two years?
I have a 2013 Mac Pro and everything still runs great like day one with all the latest software.

[jancivil]

I have major reasons for not choosing Logic, features... so it's not as full-featured per se as is sometimes stated in threads like this.

1) multiple control lanes in one window in a key editor

You are faced with these sorts of workarounds:
https://ask.audio/articles/why-how-to-v ... ogic-pro-x

As opposed to:

[VitaminD]

What do you desire to glean from this poll ?

[enroe]

Why change every two years?
I have a 2013 Mac Pro and everything still runs great like day one with all the latest software.

You lucky one, you!
Yeah, stay with what works for you!

[enroe]

I have major reasons for not choosing Logic, features... so it's not as full-featured per se as is sometimes stated in threads like this.

1) multiple control lanes in one window in a key editor

Yeah, there may be edges - but they're really minor.
In this case you can easily open more than one key-editor,
synchronize them and save them as a screenset - and that's it.

[jancivil]

Another reason for me is Note Expression. Bitwig apparently does it (found that out here) but I've also seen it reported that it doesn't support changing time signatures.
Not sure how true the latter is but I'm not needing to know. A full demo is not provided anyway.

This may be illustrated in a picture: here the Note Expression window for one note in the part is revealed. The control lanes for the part are as well, so you can see the graphical difference, and outside of N.E. it applies to all of the notes in the part simultaneously anyway. Also the data may be stretched in a much more useful way in N.E., stretching, flattening or expanding the relationship of the data selected. Which are doable but more restricted in the lane for some reason.

[jancivil]

I have major reasons for not choosing Logic, features... so it's not as full-featured per se as is sometimes stated in threads like this.

1) multiple control lanes in one window in a key editor

Yeah, there may be edges - but they're really minor.
In this case you can easily open more than one key-editor,
synchronize them and save them as a screenset - and that's it.

I'm not going to argue what works for you but not for me (*workarounds*), there is no upside to it. I said in one window, meaning with the piano roll (and not more) which I showed the depiction of, and that's that.

Vs, eg:

workaround.png

I prefer not, it's as simple as that.

[elassi]

This poll must be some sort of Darwin Award application tailored for the KVR community...

[jancivil]

Then, there's this. teh Evil Dragon showed that REAPER can haz as well. Samplitude does this.'

Has to have this feature for me:

https://youtu.be/lZfQtgZBtwA

Moving points in the timeline but the tracks remain stationary.