What DAW Do You Hate?

[machinesworking]

It might have something to do with the fact that it's not very user friendly, especially for beginners.

It definitely requires you adopt it's methods, or spend a good amount of time setting it up the way you want it to work. I think it's actually a bit harder if you know another DAW really well, that's true of learning any new DAW. There aren't standards for words to describe the way MIDI looks in an arrangement page for example:
Logic- objects
Live- clips
DP10- parsed phrases
Reaper- items

It's also not the most complete and easy to use music making environment around. It's more of a tinkerer's sandbox with unlimited knobs, switches and pull-downs to play with.

It's not the most easy to use, but it's very complete, there's always a script someone wrote to mimic some function in another DAW. Even Ableton/Bitwig/DP10 Clips for example.

It's also got a very uninspiring interface for writing new songs, just like Protools. I see Reaper and Protools catering towards the engineering side of things.

In a sense yes. I've spent a few months making an interface for Reaper that caters to my needs, so now it looks and behaves in a way I like, and fades into the background where it should. So it offers tinkerers a lot of tools to mess around with for sure, but once you've set it up the way you want it to work you can keep that set up forever.

For me, the good thing about reaper is I can more or less snipe things I like about the other DAWs I use and roll my own. The bad thing and IMO why it gets a lot of flack (besides the fact people get all cult like about it), is that if you veer into unfamiliar territory, it can be some serious down time eliminating all the options you have with this function to get where you need to go. For instance I've never needed to time stretch in Reaper, and it might be great, even better than the rest, but it's not going to be as dead simple to use as Live's stretch markers etc.

All that said it still shocks me that it beats Logic, Pro Tools, and Fruity Loops Studio out though? I thought it would be on par with Cubase.

[inkwarp]

i hate nothing.
except Donald Trump..

[tooneba]

orange man bad

[GreyLion]

Hey, we're just talking about hating a DAW here!

So - Donald's A Wanker.

(And, yeah, this part of the thread is probably going to get killed by Hink or some other mod, but a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.)

[supimpa]

Pro Tools for me. The software is not bad at all (could be better for MIDI though) but i don't like much how Avid handles things.

I´m a Logic guy now!

[inkwarp]

oops. my bad.
soz.

[Tj Shredder]

2 thirds of the users hate a DAW? Is KVR that sick already?
Its either love or fear...
If you fear a DAW, just don‘t use it.
You should divorce before hate can grow... Its like in the real life...

[Mushy Mushy]

2 thirds of the users hate a DAW? Is KVR that sick already?
Its either love or fear...
If you fear a DAW, just don‘t use it.
You should divorce before hate can grow... Its like in the real life...

Are you sure it's not fantasy? No escape from reality.

[vurt]

im caught in a frickin landslide

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

I hate the Daw's y'all use. The ones I use are very cool

[Mushy Mushy]

im caught in a frickin landslide

Easy come, easy go.

[vurt]

let me go

[harryupbabble]

REAPER is/was consistently winning this other poll for a long time.
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=520515&start=150

Are the people whose DAWs were beaten by REAPER in that other poll the ones hating REAPER now in this poll?
That's a lot of other DAWs that didn't win that other poll? That's a lot of possible "total" haters?

REAPER is an American company? This poll reminds me of those people in the news waving "Death To America" signs.
Hey, it's a thread about hate. It's not like it's off topic to make that observation? It's not the same hate?
It's not a fair comparison? Hahaha. Okay, I guess it isn't the same hate. But still.

REAPER is also an acronym for "Rapid Environment for Audio Production, Engineering, and Recording".
It's proper to capitalize acronyms? I guess some beginners (those just learning how to use REAPER) would scoff at the "Rapid" part of that acronym. But after a while, maybe REAPER transforms into something like a Volkswagen Bug transformering into a Ferrari and the "Rapid" part of the acronym becomes true.

Hey, that reminds me to ask people who live/lived in Germany... were Volkswagen Bugs ever allowed/seen on the autobahn?

[xbitz]

Reaper is lovechild it simply can't be hated




respect to Justin

[vurt]

Reaper is lovechild it simply can't be hated

scientific polls on forums do not lie!