DAW Recommendations?

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Well first for the people who just clicked on this thread wondering what in the hell a DAW is - Digital Audio Workstation. Programs for creating music via your PC.




Now onto the real topic:

I've been mucking around with Fruityloops/FL Studio for around 3 years, and just can't shake the "midi" feeling. I'm a bit tired of being unsatisfied by what I produce just because everything sounds like a midi with fancy VSTi's. I've tried every effect in the book, and just can't get rid of it. So I figured it must be an inherent flaw with FL itself.

I've tried Cubase, and I have to say it's confusing as hell. I just don't understand it, after messing around with it for a few hours, plus it just takes ages to load up, as it has to load every single VSTi I have installed before the program runs at all. Having at least 30, this is not a good thing.


So if anyone at all here uses anything, please, what is good, and easy to understand?
 
Joey D
I've used Sonic Foundry's Acid 3.0 for quite a few years now and I love it. They have 6.0 out now but I have not upgraded, mainly because I do not want to learn a new system and 3.0 works for what I do (same reason I'm on CS2 with Adobe).

Here is a link showing what it does:
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/products/product.asp?pid=383

There is also a free trial:
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/download/step2.asp?DID=661
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Any way to zoom out on an individual sequence, or have a full screen editor? Because having a 3 note sequencer, and having to scroll is a bit dumb. Everything else isn't too bad. It looks like Cubase, but is a bit easier. Also, takes years to run due to VSTi scanning, but that's just one run, I don't know if it's going to always be like that.

Edit: Crap Acid's automation actually works right.

HACKr
Ableton Live is very good.
http://www.ableton.com/
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And entirely different to anything I've seen before, would take a lot of studying to even figure out how to play some notes :p
 
Acid is seriously good. Automation works properly, multichannel output for VSTi's works properly (something that irked me so much with FL, you'd need to run the same VSTi once for each channel you wanted to use it for. If you wanted to use one VSTi for an entire song, you'd end up with 5 or more instances of it)


Definitely going to be learning this and sticking with it.
 

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