DAW for a beginner

[Ventura]

That sounds exactly what I'm looking for. Thank everyone for the recommendations, helps a lot.

aww man, don't do this to me. You sound exactly like my friend!

He swears by it, but has a few thousand wrapped up in just plugins. It's way advanced for me, lol.

FruityLoops is your saviour. For most people just wanting to lay tracks and make music and use whatever effects and drop-in files or punched in MIDI/samples, it's by far the most intuitive and easiest to get shit done on. But like I said, once you're in FL, it's like the mafia...ain't no getting out of it.

But kick some ass and have fun Erock!!

 

[Erock]

FruityLoops is your saviour. For most people just wanting to lay tracks and make music and use whatever effects and drop-in files or punched in MIDI/samples, it's by far the most intuitive and easiest to get shit done on. But like I said, once you're in FL, it's like the mafia...ain't no getting out of it.

But kick some ass and have fun Erock!!

thanks man, I will look into it as well. I have a solid 3 choices to look at now... Reaper, Ableton Lite, and FruityLoops. The one advantage Ableton has, is I can ask my friend questions any time. He's more into Gramatik, Slab of Misuse, Pretty Lights, etc., but he's an expert at making that kind of sound.

 

[rsm]

That sounds exactly what I'm looking for. Thank everyone for the recommendations, helps a lot.

aww man, don't do this to me. You sound exactly like my friend!

He swears by it, but has a few thousand wrapped up in just plugins. It's way advanced for me, lol.

You can start with Lite. What I like about Suite is everything it comes with, instruments, tools, utilities, etc., and there's the whole Max for Live ecosystem, with free and inexpensive everything: https://www.ableton.com/en/live/max-for-live/ including an entire visual programing tool to write your own anything for Live...for example, I got a full modular synth instrument written in Max for Live which is amazing and have had it for years (https://www.ableton.com/en/packs/oscillot/).

I also have software instrument plugins and guitar plugins I use standalone and in Ableton (mainly Arturia V Collection & Pigments, Spectrasonics Omnisphere, Roland Cloud, and a few U-He, FL Studio, Sugar Bytes,...)

To me the Suite is worth it, I just need to make time to learn it more thoroughly.

 

[Ventura]

thanks man, I will look into it as well. I have a solid 3 choices to look at now... Reaper, Ableton Lite, and FruityLoops. The one advantage Ableton has, is I can ask my friend questions any time. He's more into Gramatik, Slab of Misuse, Pretty Lights, etc., but he's an expert at making that kind of sound.

Reaper - it's huge, but once you know Reaper? Any pro DAW will feel familiar.
Ableton - highly capable and compatible and has good workflow.
FL - easiest to get up and running, super intuitive, but forget about the outside world once in the FL ecosystem.

 

[Erock]

Reaper - it's huge, but once you know Reaper? Any pro DAW will feel familiar.
Ableton - highly capable and compatible and has good workflow.
FL - easiest to get up and running, super intuitive, but forget about the outside world once in the FL ecosystem.

I've been watching the Reaper tutorials. It does look pretty intuitive, but seems like there are a lot of default settings to change. I also kind of like that he sounds like Interdimensional Cable.

 

[MatrixClaw]

Thanks Wayne, free 60 day trial as well!

It's technicallyyyyyyyyy free forever. You just have to wait for a 4 second countdown everytime you load it up.

Reaper is great though. Back in the day, I owned all the major DAWs - Reaper was always the easiest one to use, with Logic being second. I've heard Studio One is easy to learn, but by the time it came out, I already knew several others pretty well and I never really gave it a fair shot. From what I remember, the stock plugins in Studio One were far and above the best of any DAW, so if you don't already have a decent amount of them, that's also something to consider.

Recently, I've been getting back into recording and I'm forcing myself to learn ProTools again because I've forgotten most of how to use all DAWs and I got a perpetual license of it with my interface. I'll probably just end up going back to Logic or Reaper though, because at least I can figure them out at a basic level. ProTools is mind boggling

 

[stratjacket]

If you own any Universal Audio Apollo gear, Luna is free. It’s laid out like a traditional console which many people like.

I use Pro Tools and got used to it. I tried Luna and Logic but was too lazy to try to learn them.

 

[Metalhex]

While Reaper is a great DAW it certainly isn't user friendly. It's more for experienced users who want their DAW to be fully customizable. It's not super intuitive.

 

[japetus]

While Reaper is a great DAW it certainly isn't user friendly. It's more for experienced users who want their DAW to be fully customizable. It's not super intuitive.

Its simple af. How could it be more simple. Detect input, check level, iso channel, record, render, export

 

[67mike]

I just went through the whole new daw research process, many many hours of reading and watching videos, I ended up sticking with newest version of Samplitude.

There is a bit of a learning curve, like any real daw, but it sounds incredible and once you know it...there is literally nothing it cannot do.

Was heavily leaning towards reaper, but, I really don't want to have to customize it to get it to my liking.

 

[Metalhex]

Its simple af. How could it be more simple. Detect input, check level, iso channel, record, render, export

I think myself and alot of people rely on Kenny Goia's videos for tips and tricks for the simplest things that I wouldn't know how to do without his videos.

I often read comments of users of other DAW's who reinstate that other DAW's Are more straight forward and user friendly. I take their word for it because I see it alot on the forums where people explain how to do the same exact task on a different DAW but simpler on a different DAW.

But without Kenny's videos I'd be even more lost.