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New Daw which one?
Hi All,
If your where going for a new Daw, which one would you choose. I have Ableton just now but i don't like the GUI. So now i'm thinking of going for either cubase or sonar. I was just wondering which you would choose.
It has to have VST support....
On Pc only..
any suggestions would be appreciated.
Waza
As a former cakewalk user, I'd go for Sonar. I used Cubase too, it's damn too expensive and lacks a lot of features that sonar brings. Too bad I'm on Mac and Cakewalk won't release an osX version of sonar. I'd use it.
Try Reaper
www.reaper.fm
its CPU friendly, very easy, very logicaly setup and very good actualy. and its free. Tho it feels like ur programming in java or something its quit geeky. I sometimes do some mastering in there after made my tracks in Reason. Considered mac/logic btw? Im trying that out these days and it seems nice so far.
Reaper is the best! Who needs PROTOOLS 8!? 
FL Studio for sure.
Definitely get cubase if your using PC
I "switched" from Cubase to Sonar years ago, but I stay current on both. I prefer Sonar, but they're both great DAWs. Demo both and decide which workflow you prefer. Sonar has a much better plugin bundle and better tools for EDM IMO (e.g, step sequencer, Beatscape, custom MIDI tools), is more configurable, and Cakewalk has better customer support than Steinberg could ever hope for. But, I'd say most people probably prefer Cubase's piano roll.
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| Originally posted by ad0nis Definitely get cubase if your using PC |
isnt both sonar and cubase quit expensive? you should def try reaper man for this reason only.
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| Originally posted by palm Try Reaper www.reaper.fm its CPU friendly, very easy, very logicaly setup and very good actualy. and its free. Tho it feels like ur programming in java or something its quit geeky. I sometimes do some mastering in there after made my tracks in Reason. Considered mac/logic btw? Im trying that out these days and it seems nice so far. |
its free enough, to the day u plan to release anything.
Cubase - best VST compatibility, easy to use
Sonar - best festures, but hard to use (GUI is horrible)
Reaper - best GUI, great workflow, terrible VST compatibility
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| Originally posted by palm its free enough, to the day u plan to release anything. |
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| Originally posted by thecYrus it's free for 30 days. if you use it longer it's not legal. if it doesn't stop to work after the trial period it doesn't make it more legal. though the non-commercial price is not that steep. |
thank you for all your reply's and debates its been good to read.
But now i feel I will have to try both demo version. Reaper sounds good but i'm looking for something that in years to come I will feel comfortable with when I upgrade.
Palm I would love to go Mac, my friend swears by it who is a classical composer. But funds do not stretch to that kind of budget.(new Mac and Daw).
Waza
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| Originally posted by echosystm Reaper - best GUI, great workflow, terrible VST compatibility |
Get reason so you can come back here and make more threads.
You won't find anything better than ableton. If you can't make good music in it you won't make good music in anything.
Try demos of them all of them, check out there support forums to find problems in them. Get which ever one you like the most.
Renoise! Old school (pre-piano-roll) music composition is making it's comeback!
Free version with only 2 limits, no wav export, no asio. But if you've got a decent pc you can run DirectX way below 20ms anyway .
Version 2 is coming soon, with full Plugin Delay Compensation. Then it's really starting to get good . The beta's are out now for registered (paid) users and it looks very promising.
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| Originally posted by kitphillips You won't find anything better than ableton. If you can't make good music in it you won't make good music in anything. |
It just didn�t fit my way of doing things, but I should take another look at it. I really did want to like it, since it seems like you can hammer down ideas in an instant.
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| Originally posted by kitphillips You won't find anything better than ableton. If you can't make good music in it you won't make good music in anything. |
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| Originally posted by palm is this new as of lately? ive had version 2.0 for a good while now for free? maybe its thirty days in working time... i only use it to convert wav to mp3 with lame. |
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| The normal price for REAPER is $225.00 USD, however for users who wish to use REAPER only for non-commercial use we offer reduced price licensing for $50.00 USD. Upgrades from non-commercial licenses to full (commercial) licenses are available. For more information on the terms of licensing, see the Licensing Terms below. Full license purchase A full REAPER license (which allows use of REAPER for commercial purposes as defined below) is available for $225.00 USD. |
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| Originally posted by Beyer lol pretty bold statement I�d say. It just didn�t fit my way of doing things, but I should take another look at it. I really did want to like it, since it seems like you can hammer down ideas in an instant. |
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| Originally posted by kitphillips There are other DAWs as good as ableton, but nothing thats so much improved that it'll revolutionalise your production ability. I wasn't saying that ableton is the best and everything else is inferior neccesarily, I don't have the experience to say that. only that ableton has no crippling flaws which bring it down terribly. IMO ableton has the easiest gui of any DAW, the other's are extremely cluttered by comparison and aren't as logically laid out. |
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