What DAWs Are You Using Nowadays?

[nusound mind]

Gradually moving from Studio One 6 to Cubase 14. Dabbled with Live 12 and Reaper and liked them well enough. The commercial-esque red flags on Studio One w/ 7 has me committed to Cubase going forward.

[Monsieur_FyP]

Logic Pro 11

[mjolnir]

As much as I complain about REAPER, I get most of my stuff done with it successfully. However, I'm thinking of buying FL Studio for composing later on this year. Reaper seems to excell at WAV mixing, but it's MIDI feels neglected to me in terms of GUI quality. FL Studio workflow is appealing. And then again, if I ditch Linux later next year, then I might even go back to https://multitrackstudio.com (pro plus edition) which has a really nice feature set, good support, and good interface and workflow. I got a lot of great work done around 2008 with it.

[Chris Hawkins]

Awesome people! Thanks for the replies.

What I find interesting is that there are a lot that mention they are using more than one DAW. Back in the day most would pick one and mainly use it exclusively, at least until they switched. So it is interesting to see the diversity in DAW usage.

I like Logic, but again I have not done a lot of music making with it. I use it mainly to move projects (audio) from Final Cut Pro X to mix the final post audio with.

Bitwig, I heard about this for the first time when I interviewed Dom (from Bitwig) at NAMM in 2015, but never really had a serious look at it. Sounds promising.



I was most comfortable in Cubase (I was once upon a time a moderator at the old cubase.net forums) - but I must admit I have not had an in-depth looked at it over the last couple versions.

[Resonant- Serpent]

Cubase 14 for 98% of what I do.
Ableton 12 Suite for fun.
Both on Windows 10.

[lajosuti]

I successfully moved from Reaper to Studio One. yay, using one daw again.

[Synthbuilder]

Ableton Live 12.0 on a Mac Mini M1. I've been with Live for twenty years. From time to time I think about leaving it to use something else, eg. Reaper, but I know my way around Live without even thinking about it and to have to learn another workflow is not appealing.

I never use Live's clips thing, preferring to stay within the linear paradigm. But I like Live's simple UI, no floating windows, and inbuilt tools. I particularly like its sampler and have years of samples in that format.

[Lerian]

Reaper seems to excell at WAV mixing, but it's MIDI feels neglected to me in terms of GUI quality. FL Studio workflow is appealing.

Reaper midi can be improved with scripts, but I agree that it needs some redesign and improvement. Go to the forums (please) and add your thoughts to the midi editor thread in the feature requests forum. Justin started recently to work on the consistence of the overall UI, and hopefully he will start working on the midi editor next.

What I find interesting is that there are a lot that mention they are using more than one DAW. Back in the day most would pick one and mainly use it exclusively, at least until they switched.

Using more than one daw have its advantages, if you're into producing. Different workflows can have different results when having jam sessions. Not so much in orchestral composing and mixing, most of composers I know just stick to Cubase for that kind of job.

I started in Cubase, and after a few years I discovered Reaper and switched to it almost entirely, for various reasons. I also use FL Studio for playing around, but also for some sound design and its stock plugins, which are quite excellent. I also started using VCV lately, as I began to design my own stuff.

[Chris Hawkins]

Ableton Live 12.0 on a Mac Mini M1. I've been with Live for twenty years. From time to time I think about leaving it to use something else, eg. Reaper, but I know my way around Live without even thinking about it and to have to learn another workflow is not appealing.

I never use Live's clips thing, preferring to stay within the linear paradigm. But I like Live's simple UI, no floating windows, and inbuilt tools. I particularly like its sampler and have years of samples in that format.

Sometimes knowing what works without thinking about it is a real plus indeed.

[Steve Bolivar]

Got tired of paying for updates and wanted something different so I recently switched to FL Studio All Plugins from Tracktion Waveform. So far so good.

[VOODOO U]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Reason yet.
As much as I like the concept of Reason (I now think Bitwig is way better where modularity is concerned), when a company fails to offer a demo of their product, the question I have is what are you afraid of that a potential customer will find that will get them not to buy?
I think i know the answer to that with Reason. The DAW aspect and the sound quality of the instruments (which imo sound ok but a bit thin for lack of a better term).

[eLawnMust]

I'll mention Reason then, but not the new crapola...

Reason 3.0.4 Screen of new WIP-




Audio-

https://alonetone.com/TalkOrBell/tracks ... drawl-wip)

Only 53 seconds worth so far...

[uOpt]

As much as I complain about REAPER, I get most of my stuff done with it successfully. However, I'm thinking of buying FL Studio for composing later on this year. Reaper seems to excell at WAV mixing, but it's MIDI feels neglected to me in terms of GUI quality. FL Studio workflow is appealing. And then again, if I ditch Linux later next year, then I might even go back to https://multitrackstudio.com (pro plus edition) which has a really nice feature set, good support, and good interface and workflow. I got a lot of great work done around 2008 with it.

The uncertainty about which platform I will use in the future plays a major role in my filtering down. My music is on a Macintrash right now, but Linux is more and more in the cards.

That keeps me from investing in DAWs that are one platform only such as Logic and FL. It drives me heavily to Reaper (they even have ARM versions for Linux and Windows) and Bitwig (solid Linux/amd64 version).

[_leras]

Bitwig is my main DAW.

The workflow is great. Very fluid.
The easy channel grouping with group specific FX sends is extremely powerful.
The FX management and automation, especially with the built in modulators is fantastic.
Has really great tools, routing and utility plug ins.
Great plugin and library management.

Its taken me almost completely away from Cubase. Cubase just seems very clunky in comparison. For me, Cubase projects need to be configured in advance for groups etc, but Bitwig you can group easily whenever you like.

I also use Ableton for some mixing/remixing, but this also feels very clunky compared to Bitwig.

[mjolnir]

Reaper midi can be improved with scripts, but I agree that it needs some redesign and improvement. Go to the forums (please) and add your thoughts to the midi editor thread in the feature requests forum. Justin started recently to work on the consistence of the overall UI, and hopefully he will start working on the midi editor next.

Thanks for this helpful info.
I tend to get either too much or not enough attention on that forum.
But I will go over there and find out about the MIDI scripting. I had no idea such a thing existed.
I had thought it was only a developer thing.