What is the best sounding DAW??

[Tj Shredder]

If you make dance music or electronic music you do not need to read the following. All this refers to acoustic music.
I will repeat that daws use different resampling algos and by that reason they can't sound the same. And it's not 1+1=2 but an equation where tracks' sound is affected by a resampling algo at least.

What you claim, does not make sense for me. Resampling is only affecting dance and electronic music. Acoustic means, you have microphones and record them into your audio interface. You define the sample rate of your project before. (Should be at least 88.2 or 96 kHz) There will never ever be a need for any resampling. Mixing is as simple as multiply/add. Any other algorithm is degrading your original and should only be applied if I agree...
You might argue, that internally you use 32-bit floating point versus 24-bit fixed point from the ADC, but if you know the math, you should know, that the exponent does not affect the quality or resolution of your original recording. Do the test, run any signal through any DAW, levels on unity, no sample rate conversion etc. Then subtract the original from the run through a DAW. It should result in exact silence, even if your signal is pure noise. If not, your tool has a problem...

[murnau]

Lol for the question and even more for some answers.

[martinjuenke]

Hey, the OP meant:
What‘s the best soundling dawdler?
Or was it dawg?
Or dawn?
No, it was surely daws!
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Riddle solved!

[SparkySpark]

You might argue, that internally you use 32-bit floating point versus 24-bit fixed point from the ADC, but if you know the math, you should know, that the exponent does not affect the quality or resolution of your original recording. Do the test, run any signal through any DAW, levels on unity, no sample rate conversion etc. Then subtract the original from the run through a DAW. It should result in exact silence, even if your signal is pure noise. If not, your tool has a problem...

Apart from rounding errors due to float calculations, your statement should be correct. However, I think this question IS valid, because in any DAW, you always use some on-board effects/signal chain routines. For example, Jo, the developer of MuLab, has worked extensively on how to get the perfect time stretching algorithm.

Further, though I haven't programmed audio stuff, I have developed a game engine. Therefore I know that even if a competing game engine would have the same speed on a travelling object they would still not be exactly the same, as there are many parameters in place, such as in what order calculations are performed. It should be the same thing in a DAW.

Thus, I conclude that DAWs probably have slightly different sounds, but perhaps not enough to matter. Anyway, this is in my view far from a ridiculous subject.

[No_Use]

There’s room on the market for a 12 bit daw. With 12 bit summing abased on the the Sp1200 and MPC 60.

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

I think the Green DAW sounds the best. It includes a sample pack of an old piano, played hot!

[AAX-VST]

too many pf these threads everywhere on the net...
DAW is a tool. end of discussion (for me)

[elassi]

end of discussion (for me)

Sure.

But you need more posts for your new born identity.

Convincing ones.

[solomute]

mixbus is my new favorite. I have noticed that mixbus does not make sound as dull as other daws. It preserves high frequencies more and closer to studio sound. But it also have that negative phenomenon as wavs inside of it sound awsome, but the resulting wav is more dull and with less highs. I sometimes think the way to avoid it is to just do playback and record during it via something like audigy's function "record what you hear". If it can help of course

[solomute]

And the new favourite is ... samplitude. And mixbus is crap. I have compared rendered files from both and that from mixbuss is totally flat and spaceless. Definitely when you listen to playback in mixbus it sounds pretty but the rendered file does not have anything what you hear at playback. So mixbus sounds as much as it costs. Samplitude is the best in all aspects. First you think that it has too soft sound but then you begin to value it because the rendered result is close to hw studio provided that you keep BBA genwave eq on the master to raise highs. I have got to know that secret from one sound director. As for motu digital performer I don't like its interface, workflow, etc and it's more cpu hungry. As for productivity questioin it's only one of aspects. Quality does matter too. If you use something that spoils sound you won't get good results. I recommend sticking to magix's builtin plugins + hofa + genwave + timeworks millenium 1999, vb-audio's vsts. Remember that choice of plugins defines the quality and coloring. If you violate this law you won't get studio quality.

[martinjuenke]

I‘ll wait another fortnight to see what your actual opinion is...

[SparkySpark]

I‘ll wait another fortnight to see what your actual opinion is...

Solomute: if you like the playback of Mixbus then why don't you record it rather than do an export? Maybe that would give you the best (for you) result.

[Jbravo]

I've not checked if someone has posted this already but Imageline got so tired of the "FLstudio sound" myth, that they created a webpage just to address that issue, and of DAWs generally

http://www.image-line.com/support/FLHel ... _audio.htm

[rod_zero]

The moment someone describes the sound of a DAW with a subjective adjective you know you are talking with someone totally ignorant on DSP and mathematics, someone who believes in magic.

"Close to HW studio" LOL, doesn't get much more ignorant than that.

[SparkySpark]

I've not checked if someone has posted this already but Imageline got so tired of the "FLstudio sound" myth, that they created a webpage just to address that issue, and of DAWs generally

http://www.image-line.com/support/FLHel ... _audio.htm

Great link, thanks! I recall when I bought a DAT recorder in the early nineties to mix down my songs. I really felt the songs sounded better in the DAT than on the eighttrack, though I knew it was ludicrous.

In conclusion, the DAWs might produce slightly different output, but not audibly.