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Originally posted by djjonas But what would you say is the most user friendly to someone that is a music major. What do you use and would you use it over all others?

The only way I can answer this is that the 'most user friendly' products are the ones with limited capabilities. This is subjective, as everyone has their own preference based on what their goals are in production.

I personally use Sonar for mixdown and mastering, using plug-ins from the waves diamond dx/vst bundle. The only reason I would choice to use mine over the others is because its what I have the most experience in using. I'm sure if I was educated in the others I would use them instead..time will tell.

My 0.02. Hope this helped.

I'd start off with Ableton.

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Originally posted by Matthias The only way I can answer this is that the 'most user friendly' products are the ones with limited capabilities. This is subjective, as everyone has their own preference based on what their goals are in production. I personally use Sonar for mixdown and mastering, using plug-ins from the waves diamond dx/vst bundle. The only reason I would choice to use mine over the others is because its what I have the most experience in using. I'm sure if I was educated in the others I would use them instead..time will tell. My 0.02. Hope this helped.

Can you perform music composition though? Or is Sonar better for mix production and effects only?

I'm cheap and don't like spending money on the corp. products like Abelton Live, Reason,
Fruity Loops,Cubase

The list goes on and on, and once you buy one of these products you'll get addicted to VSTi which will cost you another arm and by the timeyou have all the software you have spent nearly a grand or more. . .

So if you are cheap like me please check out a thread I wrote on the Production STudio Forum

Last edited by we_R_DNA on Nov-01-2006 at 09:57

Ummmm I prefer Fruity Loops or now FL Studio's. I think its the easiest to understand, and wicked powerful. Other than that, the only other program I even touch is Reason 3.0

Just my 0.2, but it is always what you make of the software you have.


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I use Ableton Live, Digital Performer, Reason and tons of plugs...

Ableton is easy to learn

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