Which DAW is worth learning 1st?

[twilitez]

Im recording samples every day now and it makes things different.

[Gravehill]

if reaper is so good then why do you never see it in studios? Cant think of a single time i've ever seen an 'in the studio' where they use reaper.

I have seen every DAW in studios including ones I have never heard of

[deadly_habit]

Theyre all good, try the demos and see which one makes the most sense to you

Only advice that needs to be given, besides that the thread is going to be people advocating for how much better their DAW is than others.
BTW Cubase and Renoise are awesome

[Electric_Head]

if reaper is so good then why do you never see it in studios? Cant think of a single time i've ever seen an 'in the studio' where they use reaper.

This means nothing in the larger scheme of things.

[nonobvious]

I love Reaper and highly recommend it, but it's a bit much for a newbie to learn I think. (As a newb myself, it literally has taken me a full year to customize it AND learn how to use a DAW in general + gather/learn all the plugins I need...and I'm still learning new things and ways to program/use Reaper).

I kinda recommend Ableton (espesh for a Live setup) to start because it's a lot easier to learn and start making music imo. I dunno, I feel like I'm betraying Reaper in saying that...but it was really difficult for me in comparison to Live.

[Electric_Head]

Look, the dude is using Reaper.
He asked if he should continue learning it.
To which I say yes.
I don't see the point of learning a new DAW if you already have the basics of a great DAW.
But that being said, I took me a few years to settle on Reaper after using Cubase for ages.
But I'll never change from Reaper now.

[DrVinnyBoomBeats]

MTV Music Generator. That's the first thing I ever used.

[Gravehill]

MTV Music Generator. That's the first thing I ever used.

Yeah man i still have that for the ps1

[DrVinnyBoomBeats]

MTV Music Generator. That's the first thing I ever used.

Haha. Me too.

[Crimsonghost]

I think Abelton has this stigma attached to it that you NEED it in order to produce electornic music. There really isn't much reason to get it if your using any other DAW already.

Honestly, you should take whatever money you were going to spend on ableton and get some new synths or a controller or something else fun.

[Monosphere]

The wrong question is being asked in the subject. It sounds like you're planning on trying to learn multiple DAWs when in reality you should really focus on one that you want to use.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with reaper. It's perfectly capable of doing all the things you want to do for the most part, it just does them differently than ableton or FL Studio.

I personally don't know how well reaper handles performing as my experience with reaper has been trying it out for a little while to see if it felt any better than FL Studio. I'm assuming it's capable but the fact of the matter is Ableton was really designed with this in mind. Most DAWs weren't. Although I'm starting to see updates for a lot of DAWs and they seem to be trying to implement some sort of performance option. I know FL is in the process of doing just that.

My personal opinion would be that if you tend to focus a lot more on live performance it definitely wouldn't be a bad idea to get your hands on ableton and learn it. Since you seem to be fairly new to the whole DAW thing, then right now wouldn't be a bad time to consider your options a little bit more. It's much harder to convert over to a new DAW after you've already been working with one for a long period of time. That said, it's a fairly expensive option. Try to get as much as absolutely possible out of a demo version and make sure it's something you're going to be comfortable with using for a fairly long period of time.

Just don't make this change thinking that you actually have to. Now a days most DAWs are very well developed. There really is no "best" option. Each one just does things differently.

[Perej]

I think Abelton has this stigma attached to it that you NEED it in order to produce electornic music. There really isn't much reason to get it if your using any other DAW already.

Honestly, you should take whatever money you were going to spend on ableton and get some new synths or a controller or something else fun.

I wouldn't say there is really a stigma per se, it's just that Ableton is an amazing piece of software. It's so fast and intuitive and no other software offers things like racks, transient shaper built into the sampler etc.
It's so good for sound design and stuff.. other DAW's can't really compete. It's just a shame that it's shit for mixing and the sound can appear to be thin quite often.

[deadly_habit]

REnoise otherwise you're a filthy noob casual
http://www.renoise.com/

In all seriousness I wish more people would give trackers a chance.

[dickman69]

cool edit

[mromgwtf]

FL Studio is easy and great.

[Dhinojosa94]

Switchng Daws is a bad a idea, whatever you start it stick to

[JTreeZY]

Its pretty badassed to use REAPER

Edit* I always forget I have reaper. I use Reason 5, but I use Reaper to convert my wavs to 320s. Thats all I can do with it I cant really figure it out but I use reason

Edit** Which I would recommend. From a creativity standpoint I think its really creatively stimulating. If you've played all those instruments you might like reason's virtual hardware sim approach.