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Aleatoriac · Post by **Aleatoriac** » Sun Jun 28, 2015 3:30 am

Ableton Live. Both the best and the worst. Simultaneously.

V0RT3X · Post by **V0RT3X** » Sun Jun 28, 2015 3:31 am

Codestation wrote:Ableton Live. Both the best and the worst. Simultaneously.

I agree with this, i found it to be both enjoyable and highly frustrating to use at times.

Orbit-50 · Post by **Orbit-50** » Sun Jun 28, 2015 3:50 am

LawrenceF wrote:I like The Hulk. He's the best. Thor might be close but Hulk rules. He also has cool pants. He grows 10x and his pants never rip off. Must be those futuristic rubber pants.
Hulk smash.

You're in top form tonight.

.-.

Orbit-50 · Post by **Orbit-50** » Sun Jun 28, 2015 3:59 am

Codestation wrote:Ableton Live. Both the best and the worst. Simultaneously.

Honestly, I think it is in some serious need of a face lift. I can't look at that insipid, lifeless interface for one more minute. I just can't do it anymore.

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Kinh · Post by **Kinh** » Sun Jun 28, 2015 9:20 am

Codestatio wrote:Ableton Live. Both the best and the worst. Simultaneously.

What makes it worst?

arkmabat · Post by **arkmabat** » Sun Jun 28, 2015 9:22 am

Bridging

Mushy Mushy · Post by **Mushy Mushy** » Sun Jun 28, 2015 9:23 am

Orbit-50 wrote:
Codestation wrote:Ableton Live. Both the best and the worst. Simultaneously.
Honestly, I think it is in some serious need of a face lift. I can't look at that insipid, lifeless interface for one more minute. I just can't do it anymore.

.-.

Horses for courses.
Love the interface, especially the cleanliness and simplicity.

foosnark · Post by **foosnark** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 1:59 pm

Best: a tie between This DAW and One DAW Only.

Worst: DAWTurbo

trewq · Post by **trewq** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 4:01 pm

arkmabat wrote:
No_Use wrote:
digitalboytn wrote: Hans Zimmer said that,"The best DAW is the one that you're used to.Whatever’s in your head, you’re supposed to be able to get it out and into your sequencer as quickly as you can."

That's pretty good advice I reckon
Oh, so that's the key to Zimmer's success ?
Good to know, I'll try.
Uhm, this is the key. A good DAW works with you. Allows you to record what you have in your head.

So what do you use if all you ever have in your head are voices and ringing?

pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 4:05 pm

Orbit-50 wrote:
Codestation wrote:Ableton Live. Both the best and the worst. Simultaneously.
Honestly, I think it is in some serious need of a face lift. I can't look at that insipid, lifeless interface for one more minute. I just can't do it anymore.

.-.

I love the boring grey look of the Live gui

Orbit-50 · Post by **Orbit-50** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 11:04 pm

pdxindy wrote:
Orbit-50 wrote:
Codestation wrote:Ableton Live. Both the best and the worst. Simultaneously.
Honestly, I think it is in some serious need of a face lift. I can't look at that insipid, lifeless interface for one more minute. I just can't do it anymore.

.-.
I love the boring grey look of the Live gui

It's obvious that you are trying to make me throw up, and it almost worked, but I stood up and walked around for a few minutes, and then the queasiness subsided. Mind over matter applied here. Dude, I just wish to God that after 10 frickin' years that there would some good vibrant skins for Ableton Live. At this point, it's obvious to me, that it might happen as the last event, in the history of mankind's existence to ever come about. I'm crushed beyond recognition on this one.

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crashedthecar · Post by **crashedthecar** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 8:58 am

Lol

C'mon man what about disco?

Orbit-50 · Post by **Orbit-50** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 10:37 am

crashedthecar wrote:Lol

C'mon man what about disco?

Let me think. Hmmm. Oh yeah that's right, I wanna shoot myself now.

I was actually going to give the "shit brown" one a try again, but it seems like they removed it? I don't know. I give up. We'll see what Live 10 brings.

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crashedthecar · Post by **crashedthecar** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 12:23 pm

Shit Brown is an acquired taste.
Try the monkey shit Brown

sys2074 · Post by **sys2074** » Wed Jul 01, 2015 8:15 am

Best: Reason
Why? Because it's intuitive and rock-solid. It never crashed for me in over 10 years use. Love the routing and rack-backside and the design of REs. It's the only DAW where I feel my creativity can flow and isn't hampered by eventual crashes (which happen in pretty much every VST-compatible DAW).

Worst: Cubase & ProTools
These two share the space for worst DAWs.
Why? Bloated, unstable (thanks to VST), complicated to use (Audio in Cubase, the horror!), Cubase 8 UI looks like Fisher Technics. ProTools looks better but it's starting to lack behind other DAWs feature-wise.

Notable Mention: Studio One 3. This one looks promising but I don't hold my breath on stability.

The usual suspects: Live, Bitwig, REAPER. Live is useful to varying degrees, best audio support ever but also unstable and MIDI sucks. Bitwig is still in child's shoes, also unstable. Reaper is cheap and more stable than Live or Cubase but routing in REAPER is a pain in the A$$!

So far I've tried many DAWs but eventually I always returned to Reason because it allowed me to get the job done instead of hanging up in the midst of a session.

Best and worst DAWs?