Single feature in one particular DAW that would make you use it exclusively?

[chk071]

So, is there a feature (or narrowly understood "family" of features) that would let you just focus on one DAW? And I mean this in a realistinc and DAW-coherent way.

Nope.

Boring, I know, but, that's how it is.

[Hewitt Huntwork]

I'm pretty happy with Studio One. I do wish the process of creating a tempo map from an audio file was a little more straightforward, as some people are describing with Cubase.

[e@rs]

Bitwig with https://helio.fm/ piano roll

I've never heard of this Helio thingie. Looks pretty good, I will definitely try it. Thanx!

[thecontrolcentre]

I've used Live exclusively since v5 ... not for any one particular feature, but for the whole package. I do like the free updates that keep arriving between versions, the racks, the great built-in effects and instruments, and the session view (especially with PUSH2).

[TribeOfHǫfuð]

Sure, a modular cv system with virtual cables by which I can make what I want besides from using favorite VSTis…..oh, wait, that would be Reason, and I am using it exclusively already

[jidatlol]

Decent accessibility support for handicapped, at least one color scheme for colour blinded and of course "happy ending".
Bonus point: 100% keyboard workflow (I love my keyboard more than my mouse).

[ShawnG]

I NEVER want to use a DAW exclusively. I don't want to be tied to the financial health of any company I'm not working for or running myself, I don't want to close the horizon of possibilities to any one vision, I don't want to enable a developer's apathy if they feel I am beholden to them, and most importantly, I do not wish to constantly need a developer of a mass product to have to accommodate my desires. I want developers to make the products they believe in, rather than having to chase endless "copycat" feature requests. I'll decide which of those fits my needs of that moment, or which compromises I can live with best.

People are people, obviously, but I think a great deal of angst is felt because people think they need to find the one perfect thing. Suffering arises from attachment to desires.

[THE INTRANCER]

Single feature in one particular DAW that would make you use it exclusively?

Little animated women running around at the bottom of my screen being chased by a dog.

[Tj Shredder]

Single feature in one particular DAW that would make you use it exclusively?

Little animated women running around at the bottom of my screen being chased by a dog.

You didn‘t tell for which particular DAW you want this (so that I can avoid it, if it ever gets implemented…) And you didn‘t tell which DAW has it (so that I can avoid that as well…)

[thecontrolcentre]

^^
Have you tried REAPER?

[Tj Shredder]

Can you make a skin with animated women chased by a dog in Reaper? I hope not…

[V-Future]

Patcher in FL Studio, you can emulate 3rd party plugins. It's amazing and Frank Pole makes amazing presets for Patcher.

[apoclypse]

Besides:
1. You can add an instrument from drop-down while adding a track via dialog button, so that's almost there. Or via Instrument Rack in the Console (and then you have to assign an MIDI track to it in Arranger).

Its not the same as a simple right click and scroll through for a VST like in Logic and Cubase.

2. There's a speaker tool which I believe does what you mean?

I am surprised you do not know what a "scrub" tool is as you have Cubase ? Anyway it very slowly plays the audio to listen for artefacts as in the days of tape machines rocking the spools.

3. That's Ctrl+G

I tried it and it does not "glue" the two parts together like Pro Tools and Cubase does.

4. That sounds like a bug, although I never heard about it - gotta try

Maybe ?

5. Sure, but would that allow you to do something you can't do already?

In my favorite DAW of all time, now almost obsolete, EnergyXT, you have a separate window to connect stuff with wires. I loved it and used it all the time.

6. You can have fully light/bright GUI already and S1 comes with several "themes" out of the box

Thanks, I did not know that.

1. I'm trying to wrap my brain around why it matters if its a right click menu. In Logic it's drop down, in Cubase its a drop down in S1 its as drop down as well when you use the Add Instrument Track dialog. Not sure how right-clicking is any easier than just dragging and dropping the instrument into the arrange window. I understand it may be a preference, but frankly I prefer dragging and dropping my self. Especially since in S1 you can drop multiple instruments into the same track.

3. It's actually just pressing "G" not ctrl-G (at least on macOS) to merge parts and notes. Try that and see if that works for you.

[Winstontaneous]

Happy ending

I believe you'd need a properly configured MIDI cuntroller for that.