KVR Audio

josevin2000 · Post by **josevin2000** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 5:08 pm

i've heard ppl refering to the same software with diff names.. So my Q, is there a proper definition to these terms host, daw and sequencer... So how does one exactly classify software into these categories...

Could someone categorise the following software for me :

Protools
Cubase/Nuendo
Logic
Digital Performer
Reason
Fruity Loops
Aleton Live

feel free to add to the list... More knowloedge is always welcome..

shamann · Post by **shamann** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 5:41 pm

They're all more or less the same thing these days. I think the descriptor used is whatever the marketing guys think sounds more impressive.

Best to refer to them by name, and categorize them in context with whatever use you are describing. If you are talking about sequencing, refer to any of them as a sequencer. If you are talking about testing plugins, refer to any of them as a host. If you are talking about recording or sampling, call them audio recorders or samplers. If you are just talking about them as music software, call them music software or an application.

Never use the term DAW unless you want people to snicker at you behind your back.

ttwalter · Post by **ttwalter** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 5:47 pm

Hi josevin2000,
my humbling impression.
HOST = i can host plugins Directx/vsti or what ever (Reason is out of that game)

Sequencer = Old think that can put out voltage or midi sequences. = everythink is in i would say

DAW (digital audio workstation) = thats hard, everything that allows work with digital audio material.
imho the prob starts with the workstation (doing everything easy and have a workflow for it) = nothing is in

Hopefully some day eXT will give a DAW.

shamann · Post by **shamann** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 5:59 pm

Some folk call their computers DAWs as well, making a useful taxonomy impossible. I think DAW has its origin in three things:

Some folk seem to think straightforward language is far too pedestrian. I'm a superior artist/engineer, please don't demean me by applying your average language to what I do.
An association with UNIX-based workstations, which were/are powerful computers aimed less at home use (hence a move away from the term 'personal computer') but at individual professional work (think PIXAR and the like).
A by-product of feature bloat. Once a MIDI sequencer becomes an audio multitracker, too, what do you call it?

ttwalter · Post by **ttwalter** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 6:08 pm

Yeap Shamann !
Still have the idear to have a nice sexy package !
And it's called DAW

ttwalter · Post by **ttwalter** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 6:25 pm

Tracktion you should add also.

ttwalter · Post by **ttwalter** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 6:35 pm

And how about the so called 'hardware' ?
Motif,Fantom,Oasys,Fusion ?
They all say they are DAW's

Just for thought's about DAW's

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 6:42 pm

They're all digital, manipulate audio, and are workstations.

ttwalter · Post by **ttwalter** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 6:53 pm

Yeap Lunch ,
give me the build in patterns and sounds of a motif, the controllers of a fantom, the design of a fusion and the karma of a oasis.

That i would call a DAW

P.S i forgot, for a nice price

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 8:11 pm

my daw is called jack.

shamann · Post by **shamann** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 8:15 pm

Magpie?

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 8:21 pm

vurt wrote:my daw is called jack.

Hrm. I'm not familiar with that one. I guess you could say I don't know jack.

pHz · Post by **pHz** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 8:34 pm

shamann wrote:Magpie?

thats not a magpie ...

slainte

rob

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 9:38 pm

la gaza ladra

pHz · Post by **pHz** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 9:41 pm

indeed ...

slainte

rob

host, daw or sequencer !!! Whats the gud word >