What's the one feature your DAW has, found in no other, that you wouldn't want to live without?

[jancivil]

in order of my awareness
1) Samplitude, windows-only
2) Studio One 4 may have similar workflow so my only excuse is I don't like it
3) Reaper extension, if Reaper was the only DAW on earth I would learn to play the flute, find an island and go native

[SoundPorn]

Waveforms Pattern Generator is the ultimate cheat code

[Jafo]

Tracktion: Having a workflow not based on on hardware. I just can't wrap my head around the way other DAWs have two lines for each track, one horizontal and one vertical, when one works just fine.

[Danilo Villanova]

Reason: the rack (and the fun).

Cakewalk: the pro channel!

[reggie1979]

Tracktion: Having a workflow not based on on hardware. I just can't wrap my head around the way other DAWs have two lines for each track, one horizontal and one vertical, when one works just fine.

It doesn't crash on you constantly? That is a big difference from a big party...........

[dakkra]

Mulab's modular structure and editors. I can't find something quite as easy/fun to use in other DAW's. FL Patcher and Bitwig are the closest to it but they're just not the same.

[Michael L]

I need the many unique ways MuLab lets me work with samples:
1) The "lanes" feature that lets me sequence, slice, time/pitch stretch and edit many layers of samples within a single audio part.
2) The many ways to link a single edited sample to different sample players (lanes, synth, sampler, etc) so I can easily explore one sound in many different ways.
3) The most clean and uncluttered GUI of any DAW which really helps me think, with multiple layers of depth (tabs, context menus, etc) when I need it.

[Saukar30]

I have a lot of DAWs installed and I like something about each one:

1 Orion: Discontinued, but for me are the best at working with patterns. Orion doesn't put the focus on lining everything up in a track field. The focus is on the instrument and each VSTi you use has it's own pattern generator. No other host does that specifically and which is why I still use it.

2. Phrazor: Mostly for the same reason as Orion... except more in depth. The focus is on creating patterns that you link together. Phrazor just goes further with all of the preset handling & extra control. Discontinued as well.

3. Reaper: Light on the CPU. It handles VSTs the best out of the DAWs Ive worked with. Also great for just recording & mixing period.

4. Cakewalk: The Pro Channel (every VST should have something similar)

5.Reason (Lite): Great sounds, REX support, the rack implemetation is dope for ultra modulation control

[cthonophonic]

Jeskola Buzz can do wavetable feedback, which is a thing I haven't seen anywhere else. Basically, all sample-based Buzz machines are able to read from the same set of sample buffers (i.e. the wavetable), and you can simultaneously record to those same buffers. Combined with the fully modular signal routing, this allows for some elaborate digital Frippertronics. Because of this (and because the pattern-based, tracker-style sequencing is now ingrained deep in my snake brain), I could never leave Buzz fully behind.

[crimsonwarlock]

The themes in reaper, more specifically the way it not only skins the visuals but adds all kinds of workflow related stuff to the GUI, depending on the theme you use. My workflow, based on how I used to work before stuff went ITB, is heavily mixer-centric. Having a theme that replicates not only the visuals but also the actual functionality of a hardware desk is a critical factor for me.

Also, but already mentioned, all the scripting stuff that possible (and largely integrated) in reaper.

... another is bloody reaper ...

I guess we will see that as a reply a few times

bloody Reaper again..

Ah.... there you have it

... and it's an extension.

If it works who cares how a feature is implemented.

if Reaper was the only DAW on earth I would learn to play the flute, find an island and go native

[machinesworking]

Digital Performers Chunks, and V-Racks.
Nothing like Chunks in other DAWs, keeps me using it over the competition.

[AdvancedFollower]

I'm mainly a Studio One user. Without trying every DAW, it's pretty hard to know whether any particular feature (or a similar one) can't be find in any other DAW on the planet...

-I think the Console Shaper/Mix Engine FX are pretty unique (maybe Mixbus has something similar?)

-The Project Page and being able to automatically update the mixdown when you make changes to the song

-Arranger track and the ability to seamlessly mix and match patterns/loops and a more linear workflow

-Intuitive - If you can't figure out how to do something, try dragging and dropping, it will probably work

From FL Studio, I miss:
-Automation clips
-MIDI "ports" - Just set up a MIDI track to send on a particular port, and several other plugins, effects or instruments, can receive on the same port at once, without having to duplicate the MIDI track
-Pattern/Playlist workflow - It's a blessing and a curse

[AnX]

Orion : Patterns

[neverbeeninariot]

... another is bloody reaper ...

I guess we will see that as a reply a few times

bloody Reaper again..

Ah.... there you have it

lol, to be fair, it is my main bloody DAW

[Burillo]

i can't live without REAPER's routing and free reign over tracks. Not caring about track types is integral to my workflow.