The story behind this is that I spent a few hours messing around with Ableton Live again, but I kept feeling that it's very much a 'get it done' type of DAW. While that's efficient, it can also take away from exploration, the playfulness of sound design, and the joy of creation. Since we know other DAWs, we can also judge ChatGPT's response from this perspective, actually, it doesn't even matter if what it wrote is true or false; I just shared it as a thought-starter.
For me, this is what made me realize the core difference between Ableton Live and Bitwig. - Captain Obvious
ps. Maybe I’d put Reaper in the 'balanced' category, of course, you can tinker with it in the beginning, but the goal of tinkering isn’t just tinkering itself—it’s achieving a fast workflow. Once the setup is dialed in, I’d say it leans more towards 'balanced', but the rest seems legit to me. (Of course, with plugins like Reaktor, you can push any DAW out of its original classification, but overall, the categorizations are pretty accurate.)
I can intellectually understand why AL and Studio One look the way they do, but I gag at endless functionality—though S1 has taken a step forward recently.
