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Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Sat Jan 02, 2016 8:37 pm

Switching DAW's is to me a bit like switching Football teams

Gotta stick with it through thick and thin

braj · Post by **braj** » Sat Jan 02, 2016 10:51 pm

Numanoid wrote:Switching DAW's is to me a bit like switching Football teams

Gotta stick with it through thick and thin

I kinda think it is more like restaurants for me, and sometimes I need to check out new places with new menu items, but I revisit the old favorites regularly.

ObsoleteAcc99 · Post by **ObsoleteAcc99** » Sat Jan 02, 2016 11:04 pm

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machinesworking · Post by **machinesworking** » Sun Jan 03, 2016 1:07 am

Not a switch story per say, but I'm not writing much in Live these days, almost all Digital Performer 9. Mostly due to superior hardware handling, key commands, and better side chaining etc. Also writing on Maschine Studio a lot more these days.

Sometime this year I'll pick up Logic X since I can barely open old songs with my Logic 8 license and dongle etc.

Gonga · Post by **Gonga** » Sun Jan 03, 2016 6:12 am

Was on Cubase - switched back to a simple DAW with great workflow - SONAR. Now I'm back to focusing on the music again. Cubase is great but much more confusing imo. After a long time I still wasn't feeling comfortable with it.

ckam03 · Post by **ckam03** » Sun Jan 03, 2016 4:29 pm

Was on Cubase, but now loving the overall workflow in Studio One. I am missing a couple of things from Cubase though.. but I'm very happy.

Mivo · Post by **Mivo** » Sun Jan 03, 2016 10:09 pm

liquidsound wrote:Looking back to this thread and no one has switched "From" or "To" FL Studio.

Different audience, I think.

I mostly use FL Studio and Renoise, with a splash of MuLab and Reaper, but really, it's essentially just FLS and Renoise. They are fundamentally different from each other, so they complement each other nicely. Rather fond of FL's vector UI, especially now that I switched to a 1440p 27" display. Everything scales brilliantly and remains sharp and crystal-clear.

incubus · Post by **incubus** » Sun Jan 03, 2016 10:25 pm

braj wrote:
Numanoid wrote:Switching DAW's is to me a bit like switching Football teams

Gotta stick with it through thick and thin
I kinda think it is more like restaurants for me, and sometimes I need to check out new places with new menu items, but I revisit the old favorites regularly.

Agreed. Though for almost exactly one year I've been on a reason diet.

lingyai · Post by **lingyai** » Mon Jan 04, 2016 12:48 am

jinotsuh wrote:
Long time Cakewalk user, Pro Audio days, didn't like the Subscription thing, the monthly fix 1 bug add 3 more rinse and repeat thing. Personal opinion of the 'Roll Back' feature is that it is basically a license to release half baked buggy software, which there has been plenty, the start menu for one, the very entry to the program was half arsed when released, the CCC itself, the very gateway to cakewalk products now, was, and arguably still is, a steaming pile of crap. Releasing stuff like this in the state it is seems to be 'ok' now, because you can just 'roll back' if you have an issue. The feeling of being an unpaid BETA tester was real and a bit much to take.

+1

Another problem with CW's ever-ready "you can always roll back,so no harm done" line is that problems with a new version sometimes take time and even a fair bit of forensic work to work out that it is the new version which is at fault. Resulting in a big loss of my time (which -- unlike anyone who says "no harm done" -- I do not value at 0) , as well as many flashes of musical inspiration doused while bug-hunting.

Maybe it has something to do with who's reading this thread, but I haven't seen anyone here say that 2015 was the year they were glad to move to Sonar.

lingyai · Post by **lingyai** » Mon Jan 04, 2016 12:51 am

lingyai wrote:
jinotsuh wrote:
Long time Cakewalk user, Pro Audio days, didn't like the Subscription thing, the monthly fix 1 bug add 3 more rinse and repeat thing. Personal opinion of the 'Roll Back' feature is that it is basically a license to release half baked buggy software, which there has been plenty, the start menu for one, the very entry to the program was half arsed when released, the CCC itself, the very gateway to cakewalk products now, was, and arguably still is, a steaming pile of crap. Releasing stuff like this in the state it is seems to be 'ok' now, because you can just 'roll back' if you have an issue. The feeling of being an unpaid BETA tester was real and a bit much to take.

+1

Another problem with CW's ever-ready "you can always roll back,so no harm done" line is that problems where a new version is the culprit sometimes take time, and even a fair bit of forensic work, to reveal themselves as such. Resulting in a big loss of my time (which -- unlike anyone who says "no harm done" -- I do not value at 0) , as well as many flashes of musical inspiration doused while bug-hunting.

Maybe it has something to do with who's reading this thread, but I haven't seen anyone here say that 2015 was the year they were glad to move to Sonar.

ontol · Post by **ontol** » Tue Jan 05, 2016 10:55 pm

EnGee · Post by **EnGee** » Wed Jan 06, 2016 9:42 am

I switched from Sonar to Studio One v2 in 2015 then to v3 pro. S1 for me was much better than Sonar. Just few days ago I switched to Bitwig (traded S1 for Bitwig) and I like Bitwig now more than S1.

Bitwig has better environment for sound design. Tons of modulations are possible and the clips in BW are more useful for me than the Scratch Pad in S1. I thought to switch to Live 9 Standard, but Bitwig is in the same league IMO.

Reaper was a strong candidate, but I put it more for learning/doing audio mixing as it is an excellent DAW for this IMO of course.

I also thought to go back to Cubase (I used it a lot but before Sonar). But I felt I'm not doing something so different! I mean it is the same way of thinking/working when I was in Studio one. I thought I need a different refreshing workflow. Live and Bitwig were very attractive choices, because simply I learnt a lot about syntheses in 2015, and those two are excellent environments for sound design and audio manipulating.

I still have Studio One Artist v3 which I want to use with my blofeld or Casio and some beats from Impact. It is very stable and the cpu is very low this way

. Anyway, the reason for me to have Artist v3 is to limit myself and depend more on my hardware synth. I recently bought iPad mini and immediately bought the three synths from Arturia (couldn't believe the price!!), and they are so beautiful and great sounding! So, I can use iPad outputs also and record in Artist.

So, in the end I have several different environments to work with! I can also use iPad with my keys only without the need to switch the PC on, but for this I'm thinking of buying a 25 midi keys (mostly Korg taktile).

metamorphosis · Post by **metamorphosis** » Sun Jan 17, 2016 7:31 am

I didn't quite switch, but I've certainly used Reaper more - I even created a custom Config/Skin set for it specifically for beginners and people wanting bare bones.
Here if you want it.

Aleatoriac · Post by **Aleatoriac** » Sun Jan 17, 2016 7:39 am

No, I failed. I tried to switch to Ableton, crap in 2014, then again in 2015. Now it's both Reaper AND Ableton.

There's no hope. So much ways to mungle and twerk audio, my mind is mush, I totes Derp myself.

Anyone has DAW switched success story in 2015?