DAW or Hardware or Both

[CTP_Gizzle]

Whats good fellow producers/beat makers. Whats your preference in DAW to use and why?

I'll start out with mines of beat creation in Logic Pro, and mixing/final production in Pro tools.
Logic - to me just really dope with its baked in tools, and i can get funky in the creative space.
Pro tools - Keeps me sharp using a industry standard daw, and something about the UI when mixing full production. Plus the final sound after bounce. Clean, smooth, crisp ya dig.

 

[Iron Keys]

Studio One
I bought it pretty blind when it was on sale. Fortunately it fit like a glove and felt so smooth an intuitive. Real easy to do what I want, no real annoying fiddling around (issues I had with Sonar, Logic, Reason).
The only thing I wish(ed) it had was Ableton-esque clip launch feature, ironically I think they have added that but I've not upgraded to it.

I was very tempted to move to pro tools because being trained by Pro engineers who use it, I like aspects of its work flow. However I will add a lot of those pros also beef ProTools and are considering switching, but they're also very used to ProTools so.

(For the record, DAWs do not have 'a sound' so shouldn't have better quality from any of them - this has been proven countless times. Though I do remember feeling this wasn't the case when I started out)

 

[2GooD Productions]

I do everything in Cubase, does everything I need, production and mixing wise all in a single session.

 

[2GooD Productions]

Studio One
I bought it pretty blind when it was on sale. Fortunately it fit like a glove and felt so smooth an intuitive. Real easy to do what I want, no real annoying fiddling around (issues I had with Sonar, Logic, Reason).
The only thing I wish(ed) it had was Ableton-esque clip launch feature, ironically I think they have added that but I've not upgraded to it.

I was very tempted to move to pro tools because being trained by Pro engineers who use it, I like aspects of its work flow. However I will add a lot of those pros also beef ProTools and are considering switching, but they're also very used to ProTools so.

(For the record, DAWs do not have 'a sound' so shouldn't have better quality from any of them - this has been proven countless times. Though I do remember feeling this wasn't the case when I started out)

Of all the DAWs Ive used I would say that Reason has a "sound", due to the way it uses Refills, was the reason I switched to Cubase and started using vst's instead.

 

[slimegreenbeats]

FL gosh dang Studio

I have the all plugins edition. I'm wierd and I don't like using third party plugins. I make a lot of melodies myself so I think it fits my workflow. I would try something else but I just don't see the purpose rn. I think I'm still improving.

 

[OGBama]

MPC Beats/MPC 2 with Akai MPK Mini MK3 and the software doesn’t suck contrary to what people online say and it’s worth trying out if anyone here hasn’t already.

 

[Iron Keys]

MPC Beats/MPC 2 with Akai MPK Mini MK3 and the software doesn’t suck contrary to what people online say and it’s worth trying out if anyone here hasn’t already.

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