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Do you really think a score chart would make sense? The writer did explain well the pros and cons with each DAW and when it comes to how effectively you work with a DAW it doesn't have much to do with measurable features as it has to do with your own approach to using the DAW as your tool. I think not presenting an overal score chart is what makes this article trustable, serious and professional. I started out with an Atari computer and Steinberg Pro-24 software plus a bunch of rack synths and samplers. The Pro-24 sucked (did not keep up the timing) and when Cubase was launched I switched to that. By the time digital hard disc recording got available the company Atari died and only Digidesign offered the needed CPU extension hardware needed for the Mac platform. So I stuffed away the Atari and the Akai samplers to buy a Mac computer and an AudioMedia nubus card from Digidesing. As for software I decided to switch from Cubase to the newcomer Logic, because when signed to major record labels as an artist I had met many DJ based remix engineers that all reworked our tracks in C-Lab (Logic's predecessor) and been able to hear with my own ears that MIDI timing was good in C-Lab Creator/Notator but sucked in Cubase. By then only Logic and Cubase offered hard disc recording and there was still no option for Windows PC. These caught up though, thanks to the Pentium processors, and then the extra hardware from Digidesign was not needed; you could in fact record audio on a native system. Already back then Digi's products were very expensive (because they work in a stable way, and pro's tend to pay for that) so I decided to "go native" and cross-graded my Logic licens to run on Windows PC. That was a great system around the late nineties! Then Ableton Live came around with a good solution for "flexible audio", wich in technical terms means instant time-stretching to match tempo changes and pitch shifting and I started using Live quite a lot. Live started out as a great live sampler but over time it changed into becoming a DAW so with Logic around I really didn't find much use for Live (except for some live work setups). And when Logic suddenly joined the party, quite late, and offered flex audio I very rarely find any need to boot up Live (only for doing real-time playback based random scripted slicing and DSP processing of recorded looops; Live is very good at that, like an instant StutterEdit thing). That was my personal DAW history. All other software I have been and am using is for realt-time performance; Bidule, Mainstage, M... But the more you tweak the more you learn about sound design and realize that most DSP can be achieved by nifty signal routing in many different applications. My audio imagination works along the classic studio concept: a sound source is led into a mixer where the signal can be EQ'ed, spitted and sent to a patchbay where it passes through all kinds of gear before it returns to the mixer to be blended with everything else. Nothing of this has changed in the digital world, it's all the same thinking and thus a lot of applications are good for most things. For me Logic in the studio and Mainstage on the stage is the most convenient because both applications share the same database of prestes and channel strips. You "get more for less" not only money-wise but also measured in time worked. Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.perboysen.com http://www.youtube.com/perboysen On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 2:04 PM, mark francombe <mark@markfrancombe.com> wrote: > Interesting reading, but no overall score at the end? > I feel like the guy mentioned who changes his DAW more often than Car > Oil... > (whats that?) > > I started on PC with Acid, went to Cubase, went back to Acid, moved to > mac, > Used Reaper and now Logic... > > Have to say I miss Acid... > > M > > > > > On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Since there has been a lot of discussion abut different Digital Audio >> Workstations on this list I'd like to recommend those interested to >> read this excellent article: >> >> Your DAW: getting engaged, married, or divorced? >> http://www.filmmusicmag.com/?p=9865 >> >> Greetings from Sweden >> >> Per Boysen >> www.perboysen.com >> http://www.youtube.com/perboysen >> > > > > -- > Mark Francombe > www.markfrancombe.com > www.ordoabkhao.com > http://vimeo.com/user825094 > http://www.looop.no > twitter @markfrancombe > http://www.flickr.com/photos/24478662@N00/ >