doesn't work for everybody, some people work better with familiarity, others work better using different things for different parts of the process.telecode wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2019 8:27 pmPsuper wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2019 5:19 pmI doubt many people do "use" multiple DAWS, at least for the majority of their production its going to be one. I used cakewalk/sonar in the 90s, then alongside Reason in 2000s (which wasn't a DAW for the longest time). Then switched to Reaper and Reason. Then tried to go pure Reason for a number of those years because they started focusing a bit more on the DAW, plus I came from a hardware background and the rack is second nature to me. For the most part worked ok, but grew less confident in Propellerhead with the silly choices they made, and the lack of good ones they didn't make. Then back to Reaper with Reason rewired because Reaper matured significantly and Reason was still the same. Now Cubase.telecode wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2019 10:52 am
I honestly don't understand people that use multiple DAWs. Pick one and learn to use it really well. Getting yet another DAW another tool in your toolbox is not going to make a change and enable you to make that great new thing that will make you stand out from the masses. You are better off investing that $200 into a ticket to SXSW and trying to meet people and make contacts.
This is is 20+ years learning 3 DAWs and trialing others for a week or so, with each daw being learned and focused on during its "primetime". Now Cubase, and it will take me a couple weeks to hammer in 95% of what I'll use it for, specifically it will round out the midi editing and pitch adjustments that required multiple tools before. I think this is how most people "use multiple daws" if they are serious into making music, regardless if its for profit or fun.I see. That sort of makes sense. I have looked at some of the functionality of FL Studio and see some of its strong points. I wonder if it makes more sense to just get Elements and get another DAW. I have been seriously looking more into Ableton as I hear that workflow is very very fast. I always stayed away because I thought it was a DJ tool. But I also made the same mistake with Maschine many years ago. I thought it was a EDM DJ tool, but after I got it and figured out how to use it, I live and breathe by it.
as jens says, its a personality thing, one isn't better than the other, just different ways of working.
but by all means, try something different.
eg, even using live as for example a loop dj tool, you could make tracks in cubase or whatever you use now, slice out loops and remix, which might give you a fresh way of looking at the music you make
although, live is so much more than a loop tool. that's just one thing it does better than any other host or at least did.
