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e@rs · Post by **e@rs** » Thu Nov 03, 2016 8:45 am

cryophonik wrote:
SLiC wrote:Studio One V3 is genuinely my favourite GUI of all DAWS (switched from Cubase 8- hated all the windows!)

SLiC wrote:Studio One V3 is genuinely my favourite GUI of all DAWS (switched from Cubase 8- hated all the windows!)
Voter fraud!!!

InLight-Tone · Post by **InLight-Tone** » Thu Nov 03, 2016 2:07 pm

rod_zero wrote:Good looking? Logic and Studio One.

Functional? Ableton Live, if you don't use third party plug ins you can avoid opening/closing windows and becomes way less cluttered. of course live isn't the best for mixing and audio editing but for its main intended purpose the GUI is superb.

Worst? Reaper because it lack any core principle guiding it. Then Reason because it is so outdated for today more common resolutions.

Live is like working in Excel, not inspiring, the Arrange view makes me want to puke...

Studio One is OK, but way too flat looking making it hard to distinguish elements, they got the windowing right, but I hate dragging things in from the right.

Sonar is pretty good until you have to dive in all the menus and sub-menus that look like they are from the early 90's. Plus that fiddly piano roll, yuck!

My vote is for Cubase but PLEASE unify the windowing like Sonar, Studio One etc.

EnGee · Post by **EnGee** » Thu Nov 03, 2016 2:46 pm

Cubase is my favourite

But I like also to work with Logic 9, Studio One version 2, Bitwig, Live, FL Studio and Reason.

musiclover55547 · Post by **musiclover55547** » Fri Nov 04, 2016 4:49 am

Logic X after an Ableton Rewire / Harmony to MIDI.

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daExpert · Post by **daExpert** » Fri Nov 04, 2016 6:34 am

Definitely Logic X. The most cohesive from a visual and functional standpoint. It's not even a debatable fact. Them apple engineers know what they're doing.

Michael L · Post by **Michael L** » Fri Nov 04, 2016 7:34 am

daExpert wrote:apple engineers know what they're doing

e@rs · Post by **e@rs** » Fri Nov 04, 2016 8:48 am

^Don't laugh! Just trust him, he's an Expert.

Echoes in the Attic · Post by **Echoes in the Attic** » Fri Nov 04, 2016 8:58 am

Definitely Bitwig here. Though I have to admit that Logic is quite nice looking too.

Aliens · Post by **Aliens** » Fri Nov 04, 2016 8:46 pm

Studio one V2

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Fri Nov 04, 2016 8:56 pm

daExpert wrote:Definitely Logic X. The most cohesive from a visual and functional standpoint. It's not even a debatable fact. Them apple engineers know what they're doing.

Mcnoone, is that you?

jjpscott01 · Post by **jjpscott01** » Sat Nov 05, 2016 3:38 am

The Tracktion 7 GUI looks very smooth to me as does Cubase, Mulab 7, and Reason 9. I'd also have to give Bitwig the nod on creating quite the lovely interface... Lots of choice visually these days

dupont · Post by **dupont** » Sat Nov 05, 2016 9:33 am

I'm not an Apple fanboy at all but I must admit LPX has the best, cleaner GUI.

Tracktion 7 is also fine but the GUI is jerky on my imac with some plugins.

ValliSoftware · Post by **ValliSoftware** » Wed Nov 09, 2016 3:59 pm

Look at this guys sequencer GUI and tell me if GUI really matters.

.jon · Post by **.jon** » Wed Nov 09, 2016 5:56 pm

Guess GUI doesn't matter that much if "DAW" means just a MIDI recorder without any of the functions of a DAW, and you've used it for 30 years.

ValliSoftware · Post by **ValliSoftware** » Wed Nov 09, 2016 6:29 pm

.jon wrote:Guess GUI doesn't matter that much if "DAW" means just a MIDI recorder without any of the functions of a DAW

Sort of like when the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, etc... recorded.

.jon wrote:...and you've used it for 30 years.

Let's just say the guy is 34 (which I don't think he's even close), then at 4 years old he started playing.
Plus I don't think it takes 30 years to learn Logic Pro X (which I use) or any other sequencer.

Again, my point is GUI doesn't matter, he made the sequencer work for him and in less than 30 years.

If you make your sequencer work for you, then that's all that matters.

And the best GUI of all the DAWS in your opinion is... ?