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DAW WARS! Which DAW is the BEST? (Patreon)

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2024-04-28 13:05:01
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For modern music producers, the DAW is the most essential part of their kit and is at the heart of everything they create. Some people prefer one DAW, while other people prefer another. That brings up the question, which one is the BEST? There's no right or wrong answer to this question, but we thought it might be fun to compare and contrast each DAW so you guys can see which ones offer what, and learn our history with DAWs in the process.

The only question that remains is, which DAW are you using and why? Let me know in the comments!

Cheers and enjoy the episode!

Chris | S1gns Of L1fe

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DAW WARS! Which Daw is the BEST?

DAW WARS round 1...FIGHT! In this episode Jon and Chris discuss the strengths and weaknesses of every consumer DAW out there right now so we can figure out which is the "best" DAW. Our answer might surprise you! Chris from S1gns Of L1fe is an ambient music producer, content creator and sound designer from the Bay Area, CA. He is the co-founder of Synphaera Records, exosphere, and Material by Synphaera. Jon Audio teaches sound design of many different kinds of electronic music as well as specific courses of popular synthesizers. SUBSCRIBE to S1gns Of L1fe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3HAT4Wo Listen to music on Synphaera: https://synphaera.bandcamp.com/ Listen to music on exosphere: https://exospheremusic.bandcamp.com/ Follow S1gns on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/s1gnsofl1fe/ Join S1gns Of L1fe on Patreon with bonus Harmonic Horizons Content - Beyond the Horizon: https://www.patreon.com/s1gnsofl1fe All of his links: linktr.ee/s1gnsofl1fe SUBSCRIBE to Jon Audio on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@jonaudio Join Jon Audio on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JonAudio Visit the Jon Audio Store: https://jonaudio.gumroad.com/ ---Timecodes--- 0:00 What's The Best DAW? 2:01 Pro Tools 10:29 Ableton Live 22:38 Bitwig 31:54 FL Studio 36:36 Logic Pro 46:04 Cubase 49:05 Other DAWS 59:52 Final Thoughts 1:02:55 Ending

Comments

Tristan

Bitwig :) It's the best for sound design, modulation, electronic music production. You can modulate just about anything and everything so easily. The native devices, effects, plugins are insanely good. The signal flows / device chains are very intuitive and easy to follow. The interface is so well designed. Everything is right in front of you. There is very little menu diving, which is saying a lot for how powerful it is. And it has the grid -- the most powerful modular synth platform ever. It's so much deeper than the usual modular synth stuff. It's very inspiring and amazing. I see people complain because Bitwig lacks a few standard features found in Cubase and Ableton, but those DAWs have so much less than Bitwig in many other ways. And to be fair, Bitwig may not quite as good as Ableton for working with samples, as I have seen some say (although I would challenge that point). So, if sound design and modulation for electronic music production are important to someone, I think Bitwig is a really good choice.

Marek Jedliński

Bitwig, too. Came for the note FX and modulators, stayed for the three grids which just work the way my mind likes to work, I guess. But most of all, Bitwig has this consistent design, things are where I expect them to be even if I'd never seen them before. I still consider myself a beginner (4 years total, 2 of that with Bitwig), but I rarely need tutorials to do what I need, usually I can figure things out just by looking at the Bitwig screen. Bitwig was the first piece of software in a very long time (possibly since late 1990s) where the old feeling of "wow, this is so cool and so neatly done and so helpful" came back for me. And when I try to something new and maybe a little weird, I can nearly always figure out how to do that in Bitwig.

Miir

spent many years in logic Pro, then Ableton, and recently realized I should’ve been in Bitwig and pretty sure that’s where I will stay. The hardware mapping and support alone is better than anything I’ve encountered and it has me actually using all of my tactile controls again and not thinking about the mouse to turn knobs on everything. my controllers built for Ableton actually do more in Bitwig.

mike hermans

i used many daws over a 35 year period , starting with deluxe music on amiga 500 , later emagic's logic on pc , fruity loops on pc ,logic on mac until i've switched over to live 12 this year. on the ipad i used logic pro for ipad , but returned to cubasis , love that little daw , nice workflow ,nicer than on the mac. Since i use live 12 my workflow is a dream ( after a period of learning how to wrap my head around it ..lol ) used studio one and reason too nice but not for me. So my conclusion is try out and don't be afraid to learn something new ,like music everything has to evolve..............ah why don't they sell their daws on usb sticks , i hate great downloads , so ridiculous , still love a hard copy of a decent piece of software.

Francisco Costa

Bitwig just makes sense to me. I have tried Reason, FL Studio, Ableton and neither has offered me such rewarding creative experiences as Bitwig. Thanks for the video - great chat!

andy jameson

Bitwig for me.. Tried Ableton but in my opinion its dated and ugly as... !! Tried Studio One but too many bugs! FL Studio I found too slow and is more tailored for Beat makers, so I tried Bitwig and it won me over on the first play, and there's a reason so many people are starting to use it

Paul Daniel Russell

Great discussion fella's. I used Cubase for a lot of years, up to Cubase Pro 12. Last year I switched to Ableton Live as I was looking at getting into Lofi & Ambient music and a lot of tutorials online were using Ableton so I made the jump. I struggled at first with the tracks being on the right instead of the left but one of the things I really liked was that you could view all of the plugins along the bottom. I have also dabbled with Logic in the past as I watched a tutorial with Armin van Buuren and he used Logic. I also thought it would work better with my iMac with it being from Apple but I was wrong on that. I'll keep on with Ableton and Cubase and switch back and forth depending on the style of track I'm writing just to keep it interesting. As for updates, Cubase charge around £85 when a new version comes out, e.g. Pro 12 to Pro 13, (depending on which version you are updating from). Updates in between are free. Ableton charged around $150 for the update when Live 12 came out, which I don't mind paying.

Bamboo Hare

Renoise for sequencing. Saving up for a Tascam DP-32.

driverlessbus

Up-to-date Ableton live suite and up-to-date Cubase pro 12. Also, Steinburg WaveLab. I am growing both DAWs with in-sert’s as suggested by S1gns. Recently obtained all from FabFilter, after their kind offer.

Jampi

I started with Pro24 and Cubase on the Atari ST and its frustrating black bombs when it crashed. Then Logic on PC and Acid Pro for clips. The next stage is Studio One and Ableton Live. Currently I continue with Studio One and I am starting to manage Bitwig, which I find wonderful. 35 years breaking my head with love.

Joshua Brumley

I know what I like and use, and that's Live on my PC and Cubasis on my iPad.

Thai Yogi

I have been using Ableton for a over decade, but for many of those years it was always frustrating and opaque (often killing any chance of spontaneity/creativity in the moment) until the advent of 2 things: Push and, now, Ableton 12. When I first got my Push 2, that was a big deal. Complete paradigm shift. It turned Ableton/Push as a combination into a self contained, real time creative and composition tool, not just a recording/processing environment. But even after the Push, Ableton 11 still lacked features to be meaningfully accessible to mere mortals, or even just basic common sense things (like having a mixer in arrangement view; or filters for its browser allowing things to be found). Ableton 12 now really has addressed much of that. With the release of Ableton 12, I could now, honestly, suggest/recommend Ableton to somebody without blackbelt computer science and audio engineering experience, who just wants to sit down and make some music (which, in 2024, is what a DAW must be to be viable). If I was starting today from scratch selecting a DAW for the first time, yet somehow knew what I know today, it might well be Bitwig (with a Push or launchpad). Although I will say that, for being here in particular, it is really nice to have and work in the same DAW environment and have the same native Ableton and M4L devices that are in the tutorials.

Geoff Warren

Late to the party here as I've been on holiday. About 20 years ago I had a brief period of attempting electronic music, starting with Cubasis (lite version of Cubase) but then moving on to what was then called Tracktion. Though its layout and workflow were different from the more traditional approach of Cubase I found it much more intuitive e.g. any track could be audio or vst, so you just went with whatever seemed right at the time. I abandoned these early attempts quite quickly, but then got more seriously into it during the pandemic, and inevitably went for what is now called Tracktion Waveform as it was what I [sort of] knew. Not for everyone, but works for me. Not really a DAW, but I've also got into VCV Rack for a more free-wheeling approach when the linear stuff is too restricting.

mike hermans

Over the last 10 days i've tested and bought Bitwig producer , and indeed it is nice to work with , so i'm gonna use this gem more and more.....