Ideal DAW for amateur scoring? [SPECS INCLUDED]

[W3R3W00F]

I am running Windows 8.1 64-Bit on an HP Envy laptop.
12 GBs of RAM, a terabyte of storage, AMD A10-5750M with Radeon HD gfx card.

Anyway...

I'm running FL Studio currently, and I do love it with all my heart... but to be honest, there have to be better, infrequently-glitching DAWs within the price range for handling, say, multiple CPU heavy Kontakt instruments. Unless there aren't and I just don't get the science. :'( But i'm thinking of instruments by names like Embertone, 8Dio, and Spitfire Audio for example, the very former having some fairly CPU intensive instruments.

But I've seen many people run seemingly huge projects with tons of instruments on DAWS that I know aren't FL Studio but aren't lagging behind either, and that thought is kind of enticing.

My first question would be this: would Cubase Artist 8 be an improvement, performance-wise? Would it help reduce glitches and/or lag that FL Studio can't seem to eliminate even with extra buffering?

My second question: is there ANY daw that handles several heavy VSTs well? Is it just my computer?

Help a hopeless guy out, please?

I appreciate any help or snarky-a$$ comments if not both in tandem,

-Jon

[pottering]

Another DAW will not change how 3rd party VSTs perform. Try Reaper's demo (said to be lean and fast), you will see VSTs use the same CPU amount.
Basically, it is your computer (cpu).

[Passing Bye]

Reaper of course, performance is one of his things, try overloading him with same things and something else, it's not just that he is lighter from the get go, he stays way lighter and responsive overloaded, do your test's

[W3R3W00F]

Thank you for the replies!

I will give Reaper another shot when I can, I've only heard good things about it, though I've never gotten myself unconfused from it. If it isn't Reaper that helps, I may have to wait till I get a different workstation.

Cheers!

-Jon

[Passing Bye]

Thank you for the replies!

I will give Reaper another shot when I can, I've only heard good things about it, though I've never gotten myself unconfused from it. If it isn't Reaper that helps, I may have to wait till I get a different workstation.

Cheers!

-Jon

Little OS tweaking goes long way


http://www.sweetwater.com/sweetcare/art ... windows-8/
http://www.prismsound.com/music_recordi ... hp?tt=0023

Here's neat optimization script, you can find latest version on second link and all info on first one
http://www.computeraudiophile.com/f11-s ... ipt-16353/
http://computeraudiodesign.blogspot.com ... audio.html

Heads up about the script, I wouldn't use it on same system I use for networking, because it really goes about disabling tons of non-audio related things, pretty much you are left with mainly system for audio (and fantastic snappy one)

Okay now I realized you are on laptop, well, it's not ideal for full blown power machine really, I think your culprit now is in power saving options

Anyways, if you want something to "take the heat" on long run, desktop for sure

I heard Cubase 8 is now way lighter and same projects take significant less amount of resources, so don't throw that option away either, it's amazing DAW that offers extensive MIDI and audio support, great all around DAW

[Kaine]

The is actually some performance difference between DAW clients, depending on how well the engine is optimized for load balancing. Reaper in the past has been amongst one of the better performing ones, but even so, I doubt you'd see more than 5% difference between any of the well known sequencers out there these days.

[Passing Bye]

It's easier to spot this things on lower spec machines where you need to squeeze last bit in your advantage, you can tell from the get go immediately, that's where extensive optimization and really lightweight DAW's shine, I could care less on my quad, but on my 1Ghz 1GB RAM machine it's different story