Switching DAW Is Inspiring?

[jlgrimes11]

Just curious if anyone has had similar experience

So what happened to me is that I have been using Ableton Live for about 7 years ever since I started making music. However, lately, whenever I opened Ableton, I just felt very uninspired... It feels like I have been using this DAW for so long that I know it too well to be inspired. Everything is muscle memory, and the UI looks too stale to give any motivation. Then, I realized that I purchased Logic Pro X a couple years ago, so I fired it up and gave it a go.

It was a bit painful at the beginning for sure: need to relearn all the shortcuts and different ways to things. But once I passed the phase, it feels great! Although I'm not feeling that I'm filled with inspiration and ideas and can put out so many tracks, at least I can continuously work on a track to push it to finish. When I use Ableton RECENTLY (I think a year ago I can still keep moving track forward without stuck in "8-bar loop syndrome"), I tend to keep listening to what I have made, then feel bored, then go do something else, then come back to listen again and repeat the cycle. But with Logic, when I listen to my current progress, I would immediately forming ideas about what to add or how to move forward and then start doing it (albeit doing it slower than if doing it in Ableton).

Maybe this could also be an UI thing? I do find Ableton's UI a bit ... too simplistic (insert joke about Ableton being Excel). Logic Pro looks a bit more vibrant and lively.

P.S. Also, big shout-out for the intuitive-ness of Logic Pro. I actually tried to switch DAW once before, but to FL Studio, and it felt like a nightmare... I know how powerful FL can be, but I do think it sacrifices a bit user-friendliness. I expect switching DAW to be painful, but at least with Logic, the painful period passed much much more quickly than FL (which I basically gave up )

It can be inspiring if your current DAW is limiting you.

Ableton is pretty sweet but is missing some things like ARA, some deeper midi editing tasks, and a Track Manager for large projects.

But it's a Rabbit hole, every DAW is missing something and you end up settling with what gets the job done. Pretty much everything can create hits. It's just what you can put up with and work with.