What DAW are you guys using?

Keefy

Reaper.

First thing I tried when I sold my hardware DAW (Akai DPS16) and just stayed with it.

andy_k

Logic, for some of the features
Reaper, for the features i know about
PT, to remind myself why I went to Reaper, and to open older projects for conversion to Reaper
Mixbus, tried it a few times, but don't have a big enough monitor
Ableton, bought a cheap license, couldn't get into it after trying Reaper
Bandlab, it was free, and it had an android version for my phone.

Jetfire

I'll be honest, I'm a Reaper guy too. I tried pro tools free last week, takes 8 minutes to load up (and I tried it more than once lol) so that's a no from me. 

WiresDreamDisasters

Reaper 6, Logic Pro X, Studio One, Ableton Live, Bitwig Studio, Cubase Elements, and Propellerheads Reason 10. Need to upgrade that last one to 11 actually.

EDIT: Okay, yeah, just upgraded my copy of Reason to 11 Suite.

Keefy

WiresDreamDisasters said:

Reaper 6, Logic Pro X, Studio One, Ableton Live, Bitwig Studio, Cubase Elements, and Propellerheads Reason 10. Need to upgrade that last one to 11 actually.

EDIT: Okay, yeah, just upgraded my copy of Reason to 11 Suite.

7 DAWs? Anyone would think you worked for a music software company and needed to test new apps in each environment.

WiresDreamDisasters

Keefy said:

WiresDreamDisasters said:

Reaper 6, Logic Pro X, Studio One, Ableton Live, Bitwig Studio, Cubase Elements, and Propellerheads Reason 10. Need to upgrade that last one to 11 actually.

EDIT: Okay, yeah, just upgraded my copy of Reason to 11 Suite.

7 DAWs? Anyone would think you worked for a music software company and needed to test new apps in each environment.

Anyone would think that!

That's part of it. But I do use them all every now and then for various things. Cubase Elements for instance has better audio > midi functionality than Reaper does, so I'll often do that job in Cubase and then export the midi and throw it into Reaper.

Reason and Ableton I use for electronica stuff, Bitwig I use for when I want to mess around with tons of modulation and things. Logic is fast to just get it up and running and record a brief idea in, and then get the tempo from it and all that. They added some great tempo detection stuff in a previous version, so that's kind of like my dictaphone.

Most everything is finalized in Reaper I'd say. Although I wish I had started our next album in Studio One, because Reaper projects can get very messy and unmanageable, and it's just a pigs ears to look at!


I also have Digital Performer .. but we wont take about that. ugh.

lento

WiresDreamDisasters said:

That's part of it. But I do use them all every now and then for various things. Cubase Elements for instance has better audio > midi functionality than Reaper does, so I'll often do that job in Cubase and then export the midi and throw it into Reaper.

I'm just trying out Reaper for a 60 day evaluation before I decide whether or not to buy it. Have to ask, what exactly are you referring to  .... ?
Being a big midi user and used to Cubase, does it fall down on the editing side of things or the stability ?

Wonky

Samplitude ProX

octatonic

WiresDreamDisasters said:

Keefy said:

WiresDreamDisasters said:

Reaper 6, Logic Pro X, Studio One, Ableton Live, Bitwig Studio, Cubase Elements, and Propellerheads Reason 10. Need to upgrade that last one to 11 actually.

EDIT: Okay, yeah, just upgraded my copy of Reason to 11 Suite.

7 DAWs? Anyone would think you worked for a music software company and needed to test new apps in each environment.

Anyone would think that!

That's part of it. But I do use them all every now and then for various things. Cubase Elements for instance has better audio > midi functionality than Reaper does, so I'll often do that job in Cubase and then export the midi and throw it into Reaper.

Reason and Ableton I use for electronica stuff, Bitwig I use for when I want to mess around with tons of modulation and things. Logic is fast to just get it up and running and record a brief idea in, and then get the tempo from it and all that. They added some great tempo detection stuff in a previous version, so that's kind of like my dictaphone.

Most everything is finalized in Reaper I'd say. Although I wish I had started our next album in Studio One, because Reaper projects can get very messy and unmanageable, and it's just a pigs ears to look at!


I also have Digital Performer .. but we wont take about that. ugh.

I also switch between DAW's depending on what I am doing.
ACID Pro is actually great for messing about with loops and pitching things differently in an interesting way.

I mostly write midi in Logic and track/mix audio in Pro Tools.
Nuendo is a new thing for me- but I like doing synthetic drums in Cubase.

The other DAW's I have mostly because I was able to get access to some NFR's from working for various companies use them just so I have an idea of what to do in them, without necessarily being an expert in them.

Branshen

Ableton live for the past 4 years after switching from my first DAW cubase. 

gretschthumper

I'm a long time Logic user, but I occasionally have a little fling with Reaper, if only to remind myself how much I can do in Logic without having to think, and also how familiarity breeds contempt  ... Reaper is a sleek little number though 

Danny1969

Jetfire said:

I'll be honest, I'm a Reaper guy too. I tried pro tools free last week, takes 8 minutes to load up (and I tried it more than once lol) so that's a no from me. 

Was that Protools Free ? if so that is a vile piece of software .... 

Jetfire

Danny1969 said:

Jetfire said:

I'll be honest, I'm a Reaper guy too. I tried pro tools free last week, takes 8 minutes to load up (and I tried it more than once lol) so that's a no from me. 

Was that Protools Free ? if so that is a vile piece of software .... 

Pro Tools First (obviously, the Vile Edition). 

Its so slow, I just tossed it off and opened Reaper. Im going to have a deep dive into that. 

People say the GUI is horrible but seems perfectly fine to me....

Danny1969

Ha Ha, yeah that's the version I meant ...... it's their attempt to hook people I think. You can change the default GUI on Reaper. basically change the whole skin

WiresDreamDisasters

lento said:

WiresDreamDisasters said:

That's part of it. But I do use them all every now and then for various things. Cubase Elements for instance has better audio > midi functionality than Reaper does, so I'll often do that job in Cubase and then export the midi and throw it into Reaper.

I'm just trying out Reaper for a 60 day evaluation before I decide whether or not to buy it. Have to ask, what exactly are you referring to  .... ?
Being a big midi user and used to Cubase, does it fall down on the editing side of things or the stability ?

Nah nothing like that. What I mean is, if I have a recording of a kick drum mic, I can put that into Cubase and extract midi notes at the positions where the kick is hit. Then I can use this midi to trigger a sampler at the same time as the audio-track, reinforcing my original kick drum with a sample.

Reaper's midi editing itself is very capable.

lento

Ah, that's good to know then ....

I will say the thing that's impressed me the most, so far, is the tape-style varispeed control !
This is something I've wanted in Cubase for a long time. I believe Logic has something similar, but I've always been on a PC.

duotone

80% Reaper 
20% Studio One

Milk

Depends what I'm doing. if just messing about im happy with garage band. and anything else I use Ableton and reaper but since I got a new laptop I can finally try logic out. which has a 90 day free trial at the  moment to see if I enjoy it. so far I think logic will replace reaper.

Macca_25387

Just to be the odd one out. Harrison Mixbus

oaf

Reaper and Ableton Live Suite. Mostly Reaper but Live is very good at some things.