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So, recently i've started using more than 1 DAW for my productions, i am interested in how many of you do this (wether rewired or not) and what you use them for.

i have started using Renoise to programme my drums, bouncing them out and rexing them with recycle, and putting into reason. i also use FL ifi want to use any vst instruments and a combination of adobe audiotion and reaper for recorded instruments/vocals etc.

essentially at the end everything gets bounced into reason, mainly cause that is the daw i am most comfortable arranging and mixing in, occasionally bouncing into AA for mastering.

what do you lot do? and why?

I use FL as it does everything I need.

that's cool, i've just found i like dofferent bits of software for different things. it's like having to bounce and import al the while but i don't mind too much

when i was on pc i used to track bands with AA and then dj/produce with FL and Ableton. Not really rewiring them but iwas just trying to find out what i like best. I really dug AA for live tracking it worked nicely.

Now that im on a mac, i use ableton exclusively... because i like it and i can do everything i want with it alone. I did play around with using logic to track bands but have moved away from recording other people and more interested in just producing my own stuff... so ableton lets me do that all in one box.

Ableton for the most part, but I have Reason from when I first started producing. There are just certain elements I love within reason, but I do bounce everything into Ableton. Really should look at rewiring them...

Quite surprised by the original poster that you don't use FL to program your drums.. In my experience with other DAW's I think it really is the best for it.

don't like FL at all, only use it to make vst synth lines and export. renoise is the shit for drums.

you tried ableton for your drums? if you have a drum pad I can't see how renoise could be any better than ableton's drum rack...Does it have slice to midi?

Cubase 5 because I Loooooooovvvveeeee it.

Ableton for jamming out ideas and warping breaks etc

do some of my drums in renoise (same method as the OP, bounce and rex them). also do a lot of sound-design in renoise.

but when it comes to making the track, everything is imported into reason.

Ableton for composition

ProTools for mixdown/editing.

Ableton for everything usually. At times I mixdown on Cubase.
Have tryed FL, Reaper, Reason, Logic, Pro Tools but just not feeling them.

drake89 wrote:you tried ableton for your drums? if you have a drum pad I can't see how renoise could be any better than ableton's drum rack...Does it have slice to midi?

never really used ableton, didn't like the interface one bit.

Refuzed wrote:never really used ableton, didn't like the interface one bit.

Exactly what I said about FL

Ableton for production and audio recording, ocassionaly ReWired with Reason.
Pro Tools for post production (doesn't happen too often though, I do it in Ableton mostly).
Renoise when I feel like I'm Aphex Twin or Venetian Snares.

Used to use FL but It's really limiting me now

I have ableton live 8 suite, max for live, and reason 5. I rewire reason 5 into ableton because I'm more familiar with reason and can make the sounds I want much faster. However, I like ableton for the mixing/mastering plus some of its effects. If I need more hands on automating of synth parameters, then I will make the synth with operator but if i'm mainly automating effects or am okay with envelope clips then i make the synth with reason. I love some of the max for live patches and I probably have started to overuse the doppler pan effect.

Ableton for playing live and acapella and/or stem warping for remixes.

logic for writing.

protools when i'm tracking for other people, but then i'm on the other side of the glass and life is easy

i'd like to work more in ableton, really use racks, etc in production..... just haven't forced myself to sit down and become 100% comfortable with it in that aspect. which is funny, as our live sets are ginormous beasts of racks...

I have FL Studio and ACID Music Studio 7.0.

I use FL for production in general, and ACID as a paperweight.

i have live, fl and cubase and really find myself doing like 99 percent of my work in fl lately.. its just easier ya??? also i like the immediate controls it gives me over samples without having to load an atual sampler vst ya

I started on Reason, tried making the switch to Cubase... essentially because I was advised to. My workflow was terrible and I was finding myself falling short in a lot of areas simply because I lacked the experience to know fully what I was doing, so switched back mostly to Reason. Once I started getting into remixing shit and started getting better acquainted with certain VSTs, I started using Cubase in conjunction, rewiring and such. Ultimately ended up deciding that I prefer the workflow / ease of use of a single DAW, so I've been solely on Cubase for quite a while, and absolutely loving it.