Single feature in one particular DAW that would make you use it exclusively?

[antic604]

It's not unusual that people here use 2+ DAWs, because their favourite one is missing some crucial feature, because certain parts of their production process are much easier/faster in other DAW or because they just like to rotate DAWs for fun/inspiration...

So, is there a feature (or narrowly understood "family" of features) that would let you just focus on one DAW? And I mean this in a realistinc and DAW-coherent way.

For example in my case I'd love to see some kind of modulation features in Studio One (i.e. LFO, MSEG, Env. Followe, etc.) but its automation is so good already that it covers 90% of my typical needs - so that's a kind of unreasonable wish.

Or I would want a clip launcher as well, but a smartly implemented shared Arranger Track segments would address my requirements in 9 out of the 10 cases, while fitting much better into the existing feature-set and philosophy of Studio One.

So, my vote goes for the latter.

And I'd probably go for Sphere, too

[Erisian]

A pattern editor/song editor arrangement exactly like FL Studio. Nothing makes music creation easier IMO.

[dellboy]

I have started using Studio One quite a lot recently. So just little things I have noticed...........

1.Right click to load an instrument without using the browser.
2.Scrub tool
3. Glue tool
4.Improved sampler. (the sampler sounds different when you use its internal record feature than when you record an audio file and drop-n-drag it into the sampler) (the latter is the better sounding method).
5.A separate modular environment window with cables etc would be nice.
6.Them-able (dark - light grey - etc).
7. not much else ......

*edit: oops! Sorry, you said one thing. (you will have to count this as one )

[antic604]

So just little things I have noticed...

Most of those I'd consider a small, inconsequential things indeed

Besides:
1. You can add an instrument from drop-down while adding a track via dialog button, so that's almost there. Or via Instrument Rack in the Console (and then you have to assign an MIDI track to it in Arranger).
2. There's a speaker tool which I believe does what you mean?
3. That's Ctrl+G
4. That sounds like a bug, although I never heard about it - gotta try
5. Sure, but would that allow you to do something you can't do already?
6. You can have fully light/bright GUI already and S1 comes with several "themes" out of the box

BTW, you might find this interesting if you haven't seen it:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... 33KCiS249J

[antic604]

A pattern editor/song editor arrangement exactly like FL Studio. Nothing makes music creation easier IMO.

To be implemented in which DAW?

[melomood]

Happy ending

[cryophonik]

It never comes down to one feature for me. It’s the overall experience. That said, I do love a good step sequencer and that’s one of the features I always loved about Sonar and missed when I switched to Mac/Logic. Fortunately, Logic not only added one, but they took it to a whole new level!

[antic604]

Happy ending

That's actually a good point, but also outside of the reach of the developers, no?

[xbitz]

Bitwig with https://helio.fm/ piano roll

[jancivil]

the way Cubendo handles the timeline, first and foremost the workflow of warping the timeline to fit the music.
Other hosts have adopted it, but I'm not going to REAPER to find out and Logic's implementation isn't the same, and insufficient afaict.vSamplitude pretty much has the same thing but it's not OSX at all.

Also, a workflow I have is to effect a slowdown when the parts are very close to being timed right (some of it I wouldn't touch because it's_right) and easier to adjust a tempo than re-record (and actually it's a compelling and apt way to write, on a page here's a ritenuto or ritardando mark). That tempo change is musical time, but adjusting barlines to fit the action is linear.
So I have a workflow, habits and muscle memory rule

But from there there are other ways it handles time I couldn't stand to lose.
The tuplet grid visually, and it's not just tuplets, any tuplet can be that number over a triplet grid or a dotted grid, at all values.
So its feature set has provided me tools that expand my understanding, that are great ergonomically.

[Jafo]

Having a unified track/buss design. I never understood the bizarre convention of putting some information horizontally on top, and some vertically on bottom... it probably makes sense if you're a mixing engineer, but I think like a composer. Tracktion ftw!

[pbognar]

Ok, at the risk of criticism, I have to say, when I tried Garage Band on my mom's iPad, I was blown away by its Smart Instruments. There I said it.

This is probably only suitable for tablets. If some DAW with a chord track could implement tablet based Smart Instruments which could snap to the chord track, well then I think they'd have something. Cubase does have something called live MIDI
transform which is already pretty amazing.

[vurt]

independent time code/time sigs per channel.
or cup holders.

[Autobot]

I like to have two DAWs (Live and Reaper) and can't imagine both summed up.
While Live is my audio editing, sound design, production and mixing playground I use Reaper for Mastering and Batch processing tasks. Live feels more like an instrument while Reaper gives me the experience of focusing on tasks.

[cryophonik]

Dedicated iPad apps is a huge plus in my book, too. Logic Remote is awesome.