Who's Using The Oldest DAW As Their Main DAW

[clivestretch]

And, by main I mean using it for appx. 90% of your work.

Anyone stuck in the past and still loving it? Just curious.

[Seafire Mk2]

I dont consider it being stuck in the past. I consider it using the tool that works for me. Been using the same host for 25 years, and have no reason to change.

No idea what the oldest host is anyway.

[concealed identity]

I was using Cubase 4 and (32-bit!) plugins from around the same era up until about 2.5 years ago, when I upgraded to Cubase 12 and started buying some recent plugins.

The reason was the same as the person said above: it worked for me, I was comfortable using it, and I didn't have any strong desire to change.

What changed was I started running into compatibility issues with older projects and companies no longer offering downloads for older versions of their plugins, so I saw it as an opportunity to start fresh with a new DAW and get some new plugins.

Plugin GAS and a million dollars later, here I am. Also, I tried out a few different DAWs (Studio One, Ableton Live, and Reaper) and then just stayed on Cubase lol

[eLawnMust]

I don't use any DAW/Sequencer 90% of the time but certain machines I setup to favor certain programs... Like recently setup an XP machine with minimal rewires installed so that I can run Cubase VST24 3.70 (1999)... If you have too many rewires installed it uses up all the mixer channels eventually, they didn't figure rewire was gonna be a big deal at the time so no safeguards were placed-

Also favor old plugs to go with, such an old setup don't even kick up the CPU nor RAM but make no mistake this old cubase run serum/harmor/synthmaster/dune & more just fine-




Confucious Said- The superior man does not go through life using just one DAW, He decides day-to-day what DAW is right...

[Zeisner]

My DAW is only 13 years old, but some plugins date back to 1999 so it's quite a mix. I try to not upgrade as long as possible because it would force me to code a lot of plugins which don't exist as 64-bit VST3.

[Winstontaneous]

I'm mostly on Mac Silicon these days, but the DAW I use most when I fire up a Windows machine is AudioMulch!

[musicartist99]

Recently I have been using Arturia Storm 3 if anyone still remembers that one, after seeing some videos about it and noticing some unique features

I think they started wanting to create a Reason clone, but along the way they implemented some very nice ideas and made it really unique, for example they created a global transposing feature that transposes all the synth tracks (and even audio clips) that as a feature made its appearance many years later in the mainstream DAWs as a chord track.

The modern implementation is better in my opinion, but the idea was there and was way ahead of other software

[vurt]

I dont consider it being stuck in the past. I consider it using the tool that works for me. Been using the same host for 25 years, and have no reason to change.

No idea what the oldest host is anyway.

does it still run on win11?
im about to move over from win1o, be nice to still have it

[Seafire Mk2]

Yep, has done for over a year since I bought my last new PC tower thingy. No probs at all. Runs all my modular/synths perfectly

[vurt]

Yep, has done for over a year since I bought my last new PC tower thingy. No probs at all. Runs all my modular/synths perfectly

cheers

i assume you mean via midi for the modular?
although i have several midi in and out ports on the modular, i have yet to actually use midi with the modular
not against it, just not got around to setting up my midi adapter, the midi ports on the modular are all very small parts of bigger semi modular aynths, i haven't bought them specifically as midi devices, before you think im mental.

[Seafire Mk2]

Yes, via midi. I have no seq modules, not my bag.

I use the Behringer CM1A, that has usb in (which is what I use) and midi port, with cv/gate out (each of which I run into an active mult and out to relevant modules)

[Essent]

I use Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 now and then. Mainly for legacy projects or just to play around with soundfonts.