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The DAW Pros and Cons Thread
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 10:03 pm
by scorcha
thought it might be useful for beginners to have a rough guide to the advantages and disadvantages of each daw. plus its cool reading about the other daws out there. so if you have enough experience in one or several to comment, please do.
cheers
Re: The DAW Pros and Cons Thread
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 7:02 am
by nowaysj
Easy -
Flstudio has hands down the best midi editing I have experienced. That includes older logic, reason, ableton live, Studio One and Digital Performer.
Flstudio is also the most modular environment that i've ever worked in. Anything can be made to modulate anything else. It's a tweaking mad scientist's dream.
Flstudio is less capable with audio. They've gotten much better, but still serious foundational issues remain. So much so, that I think I might be leaving after working in there for a decade.
Re: The DAW Pros and Cons Thread
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 7:27 am
by lowpass
Aint been on it long but will try to sum up Logic:-
Very powerful in terms of routing audio, editing + the environment for mapping out midi and whatnot
Midi is okay, bit arkward on my small screen with the editor at the bottom of the page but has different quantize options with different types of swing
Supposed to be useful for recording too, don't spose it will beat pro tools but it packs enough of a punch to rival it.
Doesn't run vst's (without the vst wrapper thing, still dont get that though) so can be limited in terms of what you can run
Re: The DAW Pros and Cons Thread
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 7:47 am
by vivace
Renoise,
WIN:
Very flexible, near to perfect control of your filters and lfo's, internal DSP's are very powerful and rival some of top notch plugins. Internal wave-editor is very funky. Renoise works very intuitive once you know about Capslock, Advanced Editor and Qwerty. It runs on almost every platform (stable on PC, Mac and Linux) and is by FAR the most stable DAW I ever worked with; it has never crashed on me so far. You can go into sick detail, have control over each blip and blop you want in your track and with the LPB-system, you can up the resolution to insane amounts. Perfect for beats. Insane for sounddesign. And only 40 EUROS! FTW!
FAIL:
It looks very MATRIX and works so differently than other DAWs that it might be upsetting. Top to bottom, instead of left to right. Needs more colours, needs an arranger, needs internal routing and needs audiotracks. Working with long samples sucks inside Renoise. Also, hex.
Re: The DAW Pros and Cons Thread
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 8:35 am
by jsilver
Ableton
Win: Best workflow
Fail: Somewhat confusing for n00bs