Ask a guy in the bar: what DAWs do you use and have used ?

I started on Cool Edit Pro AKA Adobe Audition. It was dogshit and I was 13. I moved on to a cracked copy of Cubase SX2 and then SX3 and used those for 2 years. When I was 16 I worked all summer to buy a white plastic Macbook and a copy of Logic 7 and used that for another year until I got Cubase 4. Logic 8 came out about a year later and I used a student discount to get it really cheap and played around with it for a bit but ultimately came back to Cubase 4, and then onto 5 and now 6.

I've always used Waveburner for master compilations, ddp creation, and cd burning. I have a copy of Logic 9 and PT10 (both via student discounts again) but don't use either aside from file session transfers.
 
Cool Edit Pro
Cubase
Reaper
... Cubase again :kickass:

I can use Pro-Tools/Reaper/Logic, really I've tried everything (damn near). Cubase is perfect for my workflow and how I like to work, so I'll be with Cubase for a while I reckon
 
Started out on hardware, a 4 track cassette then a digital 8 track. A friend gave me a copy of Cakewalk when I got my first PC, but I never got into it and didnt use it. Then I went to Austin Community College's audio studio with that same friend who was producing our band's demo at the time (1999) and saw him work with Pro Tools, got a little impressed with it, asked him how much it was and said fuck that, then he mentioned Cubase was cheaper. Ended up getting that about a year later, but had no band at the time so I just noodled about with making my Ulver electronic avante garde shit for another few years. Finally started a band again and recorded some demos on Cubase, nothing but raw shit for quite a while, also recorded us rehearsing with it quite a bit. Used that up until I came here and read about Reaper in 09, been using that ever since.
 
Oh, wow.. erh, now lets see.

What i've used in the past in various ways: Protracker, Fast Tracker I, Fast Tracker II, ReBirth, Cool Edit, Acid Pro, Cubase, Fruity Loops 2-9, Adobe Audition, Reason, Skale Tracker, Logic, Pro Tools and Reaper(Listed in chronological order from ~1994 to present day.).
Now days i only use FL Studio 8 and Reaper though, they fit my needs well(FL8 for EDM-projects and Reaper for recording/mixing.).
 
Started on a yamaha 4 track. Then I got the atari st520 to do sequencing ( I used my yamaha w5 and my akai s2000 back then to do everything else, then recorded as 2 tracks on the yamaha. Added guitars later with a zoom 9030)
From there jumped to emagic logic silver on a mmx pentium computer, with a gillemot soundcard.
Emagic got bought from apple so I had to switch to another daw if my hard drive failed ( only 2 autorizations on a floppy, and fail rates back then were horrendous)

So I started using cubase LE. Never got it to sync with midi and bsod's were just happening everytime.
Tried protools free,but only 8 tracks and no midi IIRC.

Invested in a brand new iMac 2,0 ghz, to get a macpro later.

So logic pro on a mac pro now and really happy with it.
 
For me it was:

Started mixing on a free 16 track DAW called Kristal
Used Cubase at college, didn't like it except for MIDI
Got into Pro Tools at college, loved it.

Since then I've tried Logic and Reaper but couldn't get on with either. PT till death for me!
 
I went through my share of little cassette home studios before the DAW age. My first one was Cubase which I loved but had a severe learning curve with. Went back to analog for a while, then jumped on the REAPER wagon. Works great for an idiot like me!
 
Started on a boss digital record, went to Cubase. Then went to school and learned a bit of logic, but switched to Pro Tools. PT has been my favorite. Well, tape first, then pro tools
 
Started out on Cubase on my old PC. Bought a 2nd hand Macbook which came with Logic and I've been using that ever since, rather badly.
 
Star Ark said:
i use sonar and have for about 6 years. its terrible
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+1

I've had CW for 10yrs now since I first got it along with a kb, haven't even bothered after Sonar 8, and don't plan to.


I keep wanting to move onto Reaper, but I have so many stuff on Sonar, and besides, if I understand correctly, Reaper fails big when it comes to moving around (copy/paste) large sections of the sequence (events, tempo changes, markers included)?

Am I wrong in this? I've been meaning to ask..
 
AD Chaos said:
I keep wanting to move onto Reaper, but I have so many stuff on Sonar, and besides, if I understand correctly, Reaper fails big when it comes to moving around (copy/paste) large sections of the sequence (events, tempo changes, markers included)?

Am I wrong in this? I've been meaning to ask..
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Fails how exactly ? Which version ?
Never noticed any problems with moving and copypasting, but maybe my workflow is different and maybe i never move as many things as you call "large sections" at once.
 
Mutant said:
Fails how exactly ? Which version ?
Never noticed any problems with moving and copypasting, but maybe my workflow is different and maybe i never move as many things as you call "large sections" at once.
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Well I do it often, and I recall having seen people in here complaining about it more than once.

Maybe I misunderstood the issue, but I'd hate to have lots of work put into a sequence, and then not be able to shift sections of it around, having a mess of a tempo map, etc.
 
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