What Is The Best DAW?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ส.ค. 2024
- In this video I discuss my thoughts on what is the best DAW. There is technically no right or wrong answer to this question and I stand firm when I say the best DAW is the one you know the best.
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I am so glad i never bought into avid or universal audio eco systems
Two ecosystems I am heavily invested in. I'm just glad I don't have loads of Uad satellites or bought into their multiple interfaces now they have native plugins.
😂 I'm super invested into the UAD platform. But left pro tools for studio one years ago then went to cubase. Overall, they are all good. Pro tools iss just kinda for the older crowd now that doesn't want to change with the times. It took me forever to leave but when I did a scientific test on the sound engine and was like man it's the same. The only thing I miss is pro tools penciled tool to get rid of pops in the audio.
Pro tools was the DAW I tried first when moving away from hardware way back in the day, because it was the industry standard...but i never liked it from the start. Now it's basically the only daw i dont use or own. I own cubase 12 pro, studio one 5 pro, bitwig 5, FL studio 20, Ableton 11 light...but the one I use the most happens to be the cheapest on3 of the bunch, Reaper lol. It's just very intuitive and the best for mixing and recording audio. If I'm producing i usually use Maschine because it's so well integrated with komplete 14. But it's a pain when it comes time to transfer into a daw to start recording and mixing. I hope NI will come up with a better way of doing that here with the next iteration.
We live in a great time for DAW's, they are all so good.
I agree. We are spoilt for choice.
@@AudioAnimalsStudio 100%
Studio One does everything 🤷♂️ That being said any DAW can get the job done
Good video Paul. For me it’s Logic Pro aside from the bugs which bug me!
Reaper Features
1. 128 audio channels per mixer track
2. Advanced routing features
3. Advanced "side chaining" & modulation for All parameters on any plugin
4. Built-in pitch correction (both auto & manual)
5. Great stock (fx) plugins plus use any 3rd party plugin format {including CLAP, LV2}
6. Extremely Advanced render options & render queue with flexible naming options when rendering multiple items.
7. 32 customizable tool bars
8. Create your own keyboard shortcuts
9. Create custom macros which automates multiple commands into 1 action then map that to a keyboard shortcut
10. Portable install
11. Advanced multiple layered "track freeze" with the ability to go all the way back to the original state even after closing the project
12. Load project in offline mode to troubleshoot buggy vsts
13. Extremely low RAM & CPU usage
14. Amazing noise removal
15. Vocal alignment function built-in
16. Versatile time Stretch options
17. Open & switch between multiple sessions
18. Remote session collaboration tools (NinJAM)
19. Online repository with over 2000 community based enhancements including plugins
20. Sub-project linking. Great for Mastering workflow
21. Remote control daw via any web browser ON ANY DEVICE
22. ChordGUN for Key/chord degree music theory workflow
23. MIDI key lock
24. Save "undo" as a part the project for unlimited "undos" even after closing & reloading sessions
25. Loop record & create take lanes for both audio & midi to capture the perfect performance or use comping to achieve the perfect take
26. Tempo lock samples to your project with built-in sample browser
27. Delta solo
28. Ara support
29. Agnostic tracks... Meaning there are no specific track type.
30. Put Midi, audio, mono, stereo, video or image files, all on the same track
31. Media browser can show 🎶 notes (C, C#, Gb etc) being played in the sample being previewed
32. Video editing & rendering
33. Oversampling for any individual plugin
34. Oversampling for any plugin chain
35. Spectral audio editing
36. Separate GLOBAL slots for Monitoring FX
37. Parallel & multi-band processing for any plugin
38. Advanced automation clip editing & manipulation
39. Midi side processing workflow for any plugin available for any plugin
40. Support for CLAP plugin format
41. MPE Support
Reaper 7
42. Create & save plugin containers
43. Track spacers
44. New parallel signal workflow on a single track. Both with plugins & plugin containers
45. New take lanes workflow with new "swipe comping" tool., while still retaining the old comping workflow
46. Gain reduction read out for compressors & limiters that support it
47. Supports 512 physical inputs & 512 physical outputs
48. Advanced Surround sound panning
49. Retroactive midi recording
50. Advanced time stretch algorithms
Magix Sequoia for mastering hands down. It is the only one that allows you to "slice" different parts of the song into objects, and then apply for each object a different plugin chain, and yet keeping the master plugin chain that applies on the whole song. This allows you to do your mastering chain, and then apply different VST for each sliced part of the song for creative or fixing purpose. This provides an insane level of control.
Cubase direct offline processing does the exact same thing.
Reaper allows that too.
Take FX in Reaper can do something very similar and seamlessly allows processing on only that exact section.
@@PrimaudiaRecord I didn't know about that one. I had to google the offline processing on Cubase even thoe I have some experience with this daw. In fact I was thinking more of Mastering daws like Wavelab (Steinberg) and Pyramix for example. These Daws have specific workflows targeted to mastering and broadcast. From that point of view, when dealing with one audio file that needs quick partionning with crossfades and VST's, in my opinion, the object editor in Sequoia is the simplest, quickest and most efficient. You can apply a VST on One sample of audio quickly, it is that precise. You can fix very brief elements in a master that occurs one time like one loud snare hit or sharp "S". From what I saw you have more steps to achieve the same result on Cubase.
@@bakerlefdaoui6801 @bakerlefdaoui6801 I'm not a regular cubase user but I do know that you can smooth transient peaks in cubase directly on the stem with no plugins. Normally I use Reason and there's a few methods for replicating the workflow, all take about 10-25 seconds.
But my initial response was not about efficiency, it was about possibility.
Reaper is literally the best DAW.
You mean Reaper is literally the best DAW for you.
Studio One is quite impressive, allot of crashes with third party plugins. But functionality is amazing.
Honesrly I do agree with your statment the best daw is the one you know. Personally pro tools has fallen behind with literally every other mature daw. Lots of the fetures that used to make it stand out are now standard and it even falls behind on stuff that others are making a new standards. But my biggest thing is the audio editing in pro tools. I freaking love pro tools audio editing.
Agree
BITWIG 5!!!✅
Been using Ableton for 15 Years...
Bitwig is INSANE!🔥🔥🔥
I love BitWig too, but I just can't switch to it. Since Version 1 of BitWig I've had a copy, I"m paying for 5 right now, and I've done quite a few productions in it. But I always shelf it and go back to ableton. Same here i've been on Ableton for like 15 years. There are just a few things I think I am married to inside ableton that no other daw does, and it's been ingrained into my workflow and when that's gone I'm not happy. I wish i could stay with BitWig quite honestly, but it just misses the mark that Ableton does specifically for my approach.
Great video , but i find it really funny how you talk about it like its an addiction
It is an addiction. There's worse things to be addicted to.
Started with logic, through Luna, and now pro tools - which is smooth and works with S1, dock and eucon. ✅
Steinberg's Nuendo is the competitor to Pro Tools, NOT Cubase. They're BOTH owned by Yamaha, Nuendo was Steinberg's answer to PT as a post production audio tool, marketed as a separate product. Used it first well over a decade ago. Nuendo is awesome but PT Ultimate is too.
Studio One is like the best of every DAW put together.
REAPER is pretty darn good for a cheap and reliable option as well as just general work, but anything’s better than LMMS or, heaven forbid, garage-band😅
How do you feel about Ableton? I've been Pro Tools certified for 16 years, but i've been doing everything in Ableton for like 14 years of that. I still edit drums and sometimes vocals in Pro Tools and my clients always send me ProTools sessions, but I always stem that out and bring the mix to Ableton. Let me explain why. There is something magical in ableton with putting a plugin on a single track and hitting control+g and having the ability to build an FX chain right there with Dry/Wet and never have to send to a Return/FX Buss. I love that. I love the speed of the automation editing. I can do everything faster for my particular workflow. For me it's Ableton. I've made all my music inside Ableton now for pretty much my entire career, so it's a bias thing i suppose, i'm just already in there so why move it? All my mixing and mastering presets and templates are there. If i were still in ProTools I assume it would be no different, bc with thousands of hours in ProTools also I know that DAW and I know that it's an amazing software. Now isn't that crazy that I too pay for ProTools every month and all i do is Beat Detective, and sometimes vocal comp? Lol
That is crazy. Ditch protools and use ableton. You are clearly working more efficiently in it.
@@AudioAnimalsStudio I gotta have that beat detective. Sure I can do the same drum editing in ableton but there a lot more steps to do it. I love pro tools Beat Detective! Plus like I stated I 95% receive a Pro Tools session from the studio I work out of (I mix and master in my home studio). So I gotta keep it for those two reasons lol. It sucks finacially but I suppose the clients pay for it.
@Feerlyss yeah I get that. Which is I own a copy of all DAWs so if I ever need yo open session to print stems I can. But these are all perpetual licenses so it's fine if they collect dusk. Protools on subscription would be a different story. I love protools for many reasons but ultimately my workflow is so much faster with it, I could never step away.
maybe look into perpetual licenses for pro tools. thery're getting rare but you can still find them. great video!
I'm actually not fussed about paying the subscription. I actually much prefer it like that. I can just understand from an artist perspective it's a killer. From a business perspective, it just is what it is. Just like paying business rates.
There is no such thing as the best daw which is why the best daw is Studio One ;)
Protools is the best but is milking its clients, Studio one has been the best replacement for me. Especially there project/mastering platform. 💯
Please someone explain me why a one DAW file from a one DAW software is not compatible with another DAW file.
What about Wavelab for mastering? I also use pro tools and love it, but it lacks on features for compiling an album, pq code, etc. Where do you do that part Paul?
The monthly subscription is what put me off, I have to say. I use Ableton LIVE and MPC 2.0. I've also tried Cakewalk and FL Studio.
What about those dedicate mastering DAW like sequoia or other ? What your opinion . For mastering only purpose. And their edition options
I much prefer one DAW that does it all. I can't be learning multiple different shortcuts. It's like trying to learn another language
A combination of Ableton Live for production and mixing, and Logic for mixing and mastering does the trick for me. Pro Tools might have been the best DAW at a certain point from a mixing and mastering perspective, but nowadays this notion makes no sense. Quite on the contrary, serious and cold analysis of the DAW ecosystem would show that Pro Tools is some good 5 to 10 years behind most mixing oriented DAWs out there. Including Logic. And the price, even for professional studios, is completely insane. 400 pounds a month? Get out of here! It's what I pay for my mortgage.
I reckon if a pro tools pro user and reaper pro user battle it out for the sake of a daw comparison, reaper would win on functionality, let alone value.
There are just things I couldn't live without and shortcuts that are engrained into me. If it was the same, I could maybe consider it.
@@AudioAnimalsStudio You can make Reaper look and feel like ProTools and the shortcuts you can create via custom actions and the like are endless. You can make it work and configure it exactly to ones own work flow, in that sense its extremely flexible.
@vidworxsfx interesting but how well does it integrate with the Avid S4
@@AudioAnimalsStudio that’s where Avids probably got you guys with proprietary integrated hardware. My guess is right now it can’t someone would need to code something that could talk directly to the hardware.
Roger Mayers moved ! New chain update?
I think I'm going to get rid of the Roger Mayers. They are good. But I have the Audio Tales 1951 EQ coming soon.
Ableton is like 👁️👄👁️
The best daw is the one you're familiar with.
My point exactly
@@AudioAnimalsStudio You said it best.
In 2023 pick one and run with it ;)
Pick one and learn every aspect of it
A combination of Ableton Live for production and mixing, and Logic for mixing and mastering does the trick for me. Pro Tools might have been the best DAW at a certain point from a mixing and mastering perspective, but nowadays this notion makes no sense. Quite on the contrary, serious and cold analysis of the DAW ecosystem would show that Pro Tools is some good 5 to 10 years behind most mixing oriented DAWs out there. Including Logic. And the price, even for professional studios, is completely insane. 400 pounds a month? Get out of here! It's what I pay for my mortgage.