My DAW is better than yours! (Friendly DAW Wars debate)

[azuk]

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[GregoryTJ]

^ this so much.

[Add9]

I think ableton is the best daw at resampling. Common m8s, you freeze your track and duplicate the midi and drag it to an audio track and bam! Instant wav file from midi

In Logic: highlight region, control-B, return. WAV file from midi in one click and three keystrokes Can't get much easier than that.

However you're right, Ableton is better than Logic at resampling, the reason being that you can do frequency splitting way easier in Ableton because of the effects racks.

[azuk]

I think ableton is the best daw at resampling. Common m8s, you freeze your track and duplicate the midi and drag it to an audio track and bam! Instant wav file from midi

In Logic: highlight region, control-B, return. WAV file from midi in one click and three keystrokes Can't get much easier than that.

However you're right, Ableton is better than Logic at resampling, the reason being that you can do frequency splitting way easier in Ableton because of the effects racks.

I think FL wins though, record into edison is easy as hell, patcher for crazy effects, and then harmor if you want to jump on to that bandwagon.

[RmoniK]

I think FL wins though,

Clearly you've not understood the purpose of this topic.

[pete_bubonic]

I currently build tunes in Logic, then spend about 4 hours taking them apart bouncing sections and importing them into Ableton (8) to do the live set with the band. I just can't get my head into the Ableton workflow for building tunes. But I'd really like to consolidate everything into a single DAW and upgrade to the next version. Need to spend more time trying to write music in Ableton I guess.

[SunkLo]

I think FL wins though,

Clearly you've not understood the purpose of this topic.

Yeah this whole thread is about making non-reaper-users feel subhuman like they rightfully should.

[R3b_Official]

Hey sunklo! Might be kind of stupid question but why do like Reaper so much? Imo it's one of the cheaper daw and is pretty standard. Doesn't bring anything that amazing to table. Not trying to by sarcastic here either haha

[ehbes]

Hey sunklo! Might be kind of stupid question but why do like Reaper so much? Imo it's one of the cheaper daw and is pretty standard. Doesn't bring anything that amazing to table. Not trying to by sarcastic here either haha

as far as conventional daw's go its the most flexible and customizable. i saw conventional daws because while i do think reason is the most customizable it is also the most different from every other daw on the market. but yeah flexibility is where reaper shines

[R3b_Official]

What do you mean flexibility? Like setting up tracks, routing/ grouping? To me reaper seems more like cubase, if that's the daw I'm thinking of.

Some daws look the same honestly. Ableton gets the job done for me and changing would be taking to steps backwards. Maybe I'll switch eventually.

[SunkLo]

If DAWs were women, Reaper would be a young Swedish yoga teacher with a bubble butt

[Simulant]

Ableton gets the job done for me and changing would be taking to steps backwards.

Exactly. And Ableton is extremely flexible and does a ton of things other DAWs don't. It's the most original DAW by a long shot!

[Augment]

Ableton gets the job done for me and changing would be taking to steps backwards.

Exactly. And Ableton is extremely flexible and does a ton of things other DAWs don't. It's the most original DAW by a long shot!

Name 5 things u cant do in any daw but ableton, please

[syrup]

Lol guise ProTools 10 all teh way111!1

Did you see FL Studio has a Mac beta now?

Have it on my shitty mac at the moment! Havent gotten a chance to truely mess with it yet.

I think ableton is the best daw at resampling. Common m8s, you freeze your track and duplicate the midi and drag it to an audio track and bam! Instant wav file from midi

I first started out on Fl but at first thought all the stock plugins and interface was a bit to complicated. Thought the vsts were shit BUT now i can see that they have the best potential out of any stock DAW.

I rewire with reason because malestrom,thor,subtracktor are crazy and massive sounding! If had to start over in picking a daw it would be reason.

The workflow is different and tbh pretty fucking complicated but you get banger sounds out of it. If you know what everything does that is....

Reaper - Right click, Apply track FX to take. sounds like a lot less work to me, plus you can actually bind it to a key/keystroke you want soooo

[Simulant]

Name 5 things u cant do in any daw but ableton, please

Effects racks, instrument racks, macros, live DJing, Max4Live, full controller integration, session view, map mode(being able to map a controller to a set range of values). There's probably more, and there's probably a DAW that can do one or two of these things but not all of them.

[rorz9992]

Still flirting with the idea of making some tracks...

If I use Reaper, is there a plug-in I can use to make drums FL Studio style (ie using a grid).

Thanks for your help (total noob here)

[Augment]

Name 5 things u cant do in any daw but ableton, please

Effects racks, instrument racks, macros, live DJing, Max4Live, full controller integration, session view, map mode(being able to map a controller to a set range of values). There's probably more, and there's probably a DAW that can do one or two of these things but not all of them.

Something equivalent of the effects racks, instrument racks and macros can all be done within patcher in fl studio, there's the performance mode for the live stuff, I have no idea what Max4Live is, or what you mean by full controller integration.
You can basically do the same stuff as you do in the session view in the playlist in FL I think. You can map controllers in fl aswell, but not to a set range of values as far as I know, but that's not something I've felt the need for either, the automation clips and stuff do the trick for me.

[SunkLo]

Still flirting with the idea of making some tracks...

If I use Reaper, is there a plug-in I can use to make drums FL Studio style (ie using a grid).

Thanks for your help (total noob here)

You mean the midi editor with a piano roll like all other daws? No need for a plugin. Having a midi grid is a pretty common thing, not like I'm over here composing on hexagonal cell automata or something. Pretty much every daw has the essentials in common, a way to edit midi linearly on a grid, a mixer and effects, some automation abilities, etc. The only real difference between daws is how they choose to implement things, and in the case of Reaper, how much larger it makes your penis.


Just download the Reaper demo and check it out yourself. Double click empty track space to insert a new track or ctrl-T. Ctrl-drag to draw a midi clip in the arrange lane. Double click it to open in the midi editor. Snap to grid button is top left, the grid settings are right at the bottom where the CC lanes are. You just click and drag to draw in notes or you can hit insert to add a note where your cursor is pointing. Drag up and down on the handles to change velocity or change it in the velocity lane below.

[kaili]

swear no1 else on here uses cubase
been my daw since i started, simplest interface ever, easy to do shit on, arrangement view is nice, vsts and audio enabled
used by distance/district, and a shit ton of dnb artists

[AxeD]

swear no1 else on here uses cubase
been my daw since i started, simplest interface ever, easy to do shit on, arrangement view is nice, vsts and audio enabled
used by distance/district, and a shit ton of dnb artists

Must say I quite like it as well.
Then again, as I have now tested/used full versions of every daw except Reaper, they all do the same thing and in a pretty
similar way as well.

For future work I will pretty much have to use Pro Tools anyway, so that's an easy choice.
For my own productions I will be using Reason and Logic.