One DAW or a Many?

[dpazi]

Do I like chips and peas?

[Dogboy73]

It's a difficult question to answer regarding which DAW is best. It's very personal. One persons application of choice might be another persons worse nightmare! It's horses for courses really & the answer usually given to this question is to pick a several packages you like the look of & then spend some time with a demo (if available) of each.

[Danny1969]

If you want to use the DAW just to make your own music then it's more about affordability and how it suits you .... some programs are ideally suited to electronic music for example and some are more geared towards whole bands, real audio etc as supposed to midi and loops.

In terms of the industry standard the best one to learn is probably Protools, as this program and it's dedicated hardware could run audio before native computers were powerful enough on their own. This meant it was in professional studios quite early on and a lot of engineers, producers and mixers have learnt their craft on it. This doesn't mean all studios use Protools or that they couldn't cope with a Logic, Cubase session etc but that a lot of studios are built around the Digi 192 and internal cards as their front end.

So try as many as you like, definitely Logic, Cubase, Digital Performer, Nuendo but if you have ambition to work in the recording industry then a good knowledge of Protools is probably the one to concentrate on.

[dpazi]

what about bacon and eggs?

[JOBU]

Here's a usefull site for further confusion.
http://www.tweakheadz.com/guide.htm

If you want to just record audio and mix, try this for free:
http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/ind...ction=download

If you want a full DAW for cheap, try REAPER for $60 for noncomercial use (you can test it for 30 days for free, even).
http://www.reaper.fm/

[stringsthings]

I too am starting out, and wonder - should I attempt to master say a few DAWs, for example - or choose one DAW in particular, and become skilled in this particular one? -

..... choose one .... [ unless you have unlimited patience ... and a software fetish ]

[tehLORD]

Choose just one. You won't live long enough to master several.

My vote would be Cubase. I demo'd most DAWs and ended up just buying Cubase blind. It is the simplest and most versatile to use in my opinion.

[thereformant]

Choose just one. You won't live long enough to master several.

My vote would be Cubase. I demo'd most DAWs and ended up just buying Cubase blind. It is the simplest and most versatile to use in my opinion.

But then the summing issues drive me mental. If it just sorted those out I probably wouldnt be trying to move over to reaper.

[tehLORD]

But then the summing issues drive me mental. If it just sorted those out I probably wouldnt be trying to move over to reaper.

I've never noticed any issues, but never really compared it to anything else either. I'm quite happy with the sound that comes out of Cubase but I do tend to mix low and push quite hard on the master so maybe i'm disguising any issues.

[JOBU]

But then the summing issues drive me mental. .

You don't have to use them all.