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THE INTRANCER · Post by **THE INTRANCER** » Fri Jul 26, 2024 12:32 am

What was it that drew you to first use a DAW in the first place?

cryophonik · Post by **cryophonik** » Fri Jul 26, 2024 1:10 am

A Guitar Center salesman named Randy. He had really nice hair.

funky lime · Post by **funky lime** » Fri Jul 26, 2024 3:01 am

i use reaper because it makes me feel more clever than i am, and dumb at the same time.

but i guess that wasn't the question. what draws me to a DAW in the first place is, i have no ambition and no other skills in life, and pretending to be a composer or whatever is the only thing that makes me feel like i'm not a waste of atoms

jamcat · Post by **jamcat** » Fri Jul 26, 2024 3:53 am

THE INTRANCER wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 12:32 am What was it that drew you to first use a DAW in the first place?

Non-linear editing, and the cost vs. a multitrack recorder, mixer, patchbay, cabling, outboard gear, etc

Uncle E · Post by **Uncle E** » Fri Jul 26, 2024 6:28 am

It was the dream that we could one day record albums at home without having to rent a studio.

dan_flash · Post by **dan_flash** » Fri Jul 26, 2024 7:15 am

Needs to be laptop -friendly
Lightweight
Linux native
Not some shite 'buy into this ecosystem' money pit

So Reaper, Ardour and Renoise currently

revvy · Post by **revvy** » Fri Jul 26, 2024 9:26 am

Works on a Mac
Enables me to make tunes
Doesn’t require me to rent it

donkey tugger · Post by **donkey tugger** » Fri Jul 26, 2024 9:37 am

Free updates. I have lived in Yorkshire for a long time.

bluedad · Post by **bluedad** » Fri Jul 26, 2024 10:47 am

Uncle E wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2024 6:28 am It was the dream that we could one day record albums at home without having to rent a studio.

ditto to this

eLawnMust · Post by **eLawnMust** » Fri Jul 26, 2024 11:34 am

Intelligent simplicity in workflow...
Still can hook DX-DXi...
Step Recording a Must...
Still can run in XP...

Current commercial products covering these aspects are Reaper & Making Waves Studio...

lfm · Post by **lfm** » Fri Jul 26, 2024 11:55 am

I ran out of tracks on my cassette portastudio.

legendCNCD · Post by **legendCNCD** » Fri Jul 26, 2024 12:34 pm

I wanted better sound and more channels than Protracker could give, well I guess you could say its a DAW too, but Octamed Pro could run 14-bit samples with high Hz and MIDI control the outboard at the same time...

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Fri Jul 26, 2024 1:03 pm

In 2000, I was told that I had to be teaching ProTools in two weeks, after the person who had been doing it left the department. No consultation with me, no concern about whether that was viable, no check that I actually knew anything about audio, or recording(*). Just "you're doing this."
A week later, I got a 2-day introduction to it from <successful musician/producer> from <well-known Scottish 80s band> and went from there.
Subsequently got back into the whole thing, discovered plugins were a viable, affordable technology, bought a DAW of my own, joined KVR etc. A year later moved somewhere else, and a couple of years later started teaching PT there, too.

(* Luckily I did, though, or at least to early 90s tech era; not that that actually makes the scenario any better. )

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Fri Jul 26, 2024 3:36 pm

sexual animal magnetism.

BBFG# · Post by **BBFG#** » Fri Jul 26, 2024 5:09 pm

Right now, I'm more focused on what repels me from a DAW. Company marketing shenanigans and support being the strongest factor.
On the hunt once again for the next one...

What Is It That Draws You To A DAW?