How stable is your daw? Do you wish you had a more solid daw?

[generaldiomedes]

I think Bitwig is the only DAW which has VST crash protection?

Reaper has. Run in separate process.

Cool. For some reason I only thought the bridged 32-bit VSTs ran in a separate process.

I can also testify that Ableton 10's crash recovery is very good - recovers pretty much the last change before the crash happened.

[stillshaded]

Lol sorry this turned into a “on 3, everybody recommend the daw they use! 1....2...3!” thread.


But......


I’ll say that I’ve used FL studio for ages and have tried many others over the years due to the issues you describe. I’ve settled on studio one. I liked a lot of other daws as well, Cubase, logic, and reaper to make a few. But I’ve been the most impressed with studio one. It has so many features that are just so freaking cleverly implemented. The workflow is really wonderful, and I frequently catch myself shuddering at the thought of trying to do what I’m doing in fl studio. The way it handles automation and the mixer is just sooo superior. Plus I don’t have to hit “make unique” every time I want to creat a variation of an existing pattern.

I do miss that beautiful piano roll tho. But actually S1 has one of my favorites, just took me a while to get used to it. My biggest pointer is to use the arrow tool in the piano roll and hold Ctrl/cmnd to temporarily switch to the pencil tool to enter notes. This makes for a pretty flexible multi tool.

[Mitch I.]

I've used Sonar (or Cakewalk) for many years, and it's been really stable. The few crashes turned out to be caused by VSTs or attached hardware devices.

I started with Cubase a few months ago, and I wish it was as stable. I get a crash about every 10 sessions. I have a suspicion that my PC's USB flakiness may be responsible, since checking the dongle may be the cause.

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

How stable is your daw?

Very

Do you wish you had a more solid daw?

No

[fluffy_little_something]

Mulab is pretty stable at room temperature.

[thecontrolcentre]

How stable is your daw?

Very

Do you wish you had a more solid daw?

No

[Winstontaneous]

I think Bitwig is the only DAW which has VST crash protection?

Reaper has. Run in separate process.

IME the Reaper crash protection works solidly; one of the reasons I stopped using Bitwig v 1.x was due to the crash protection not actually working and crashing/freezing Bitwig itself. This was in the context of poor OSX performance so not sure of underlying cause, but for me, Bitwig didn't work as it said on the tin.

Also IME - the least stable of all hosts I've used (including Live, Reason, Audiomulch, Bitwig & Reaper) by far is Logic Pro X...will poof crash or endless beach ball very easily with a variety of AUs (especially Goodhertz & Toneboosters which are rock-solid in other DAWs). And Mainstage 3 is the least efficient AU host I've used, with processor overloads halting audio on very simple signal chains. Ironic since Apple invented both the AU spec and the concept of hardware/software "just working".

[ckoe]

My DAW is Reason10 and it is rock-solid.

[fedexnman]

Good enough I guess ....... I don't know maybe ......

[THE INTRANCER]

My DAW is Reason10 and it is rock-solid.

Reason was rock solid before RE's and VST's were introduced.

[jancivil]

check this out, I'm running Nuendo 8.5 8.1 on a really beat 2011 MBP with 6GB and a mechanical drive, perfectly stable.

[Kinh]

Protools crashed regularly and FL studio did. Ableton is the only one that didn't.

It still amazes me how people blame the plugins. It's NOT the plugins, it's the daw not being able to handle them.

[AdamWysokinski]

I think Bitwig is the only DAW which has VST crash protection?

Reaper has. Run in separate process.

Renoise too.

[Michael L]

It's NOT the plugins, it's the daw not being able to handle them.

No, its the responsibility of plugin devs to ensure daw compatibility; that's one purpose of beta testing.

[Aloysius]

My DAW needs a walking stick. It's getting a bit wobbly.