2018: What DAW do you use?

[MisterB]

Cubase for life here.  I started on it, on Atari ST with Cubase 2 in the early/mid-nineties. I have used others at work (ProTools, Digital Performer, Logic, Ableton, Nuendo) and tried others at home (Reaper, Studio One), but I always come back to Cubase.  It feels familiar, logical, extremely full featured, and I love the results.  Currently using Cubase Pro 12.

 

I choose Cubase over Nuendo for the price and the fact that most of my home stuff is MIDI based.

 

 

[LittleSongFirst]

Studio One here.

 

[Manfred Philips]

Ardour on Debian 10 interfaced with Jackd.

[starise]

Well this thread is a little dated like a few other son the site. That's a good thing really to see how time might have changed things for some.

For me personally I have stopped using Cakewalk which has been Cakewalk by Bandlab now for awhile. They are going to  have a paid tier once again. I'm actually surprised it hasn't been taken that way much sooner.

I bought Cubase pro last year. Amazing DAW.

 

Eventually though it has been Ableton for me recently mainly because of the way I work. When I finally figured out I could, create audio ideas in small blocks, rearrange them and then record them as a unified whole on the linear section of the software that was all it took. It does everything I need it to do and it doesn't get in the way. 

 

I still go by the Cakewalk forum under a different name because those guys are the best I have found in terms of musicians just stopping by to chat with some hanging around. That core is significant to me, but it has zero to do with that DAW. I still have it on one of my computers but don't remember the last time I booted it up. 

 

The other thing I really like about Ableton as well was the stability. My moving back and forth in DAWS has been like almost everything else in my life. I moved around before settling on something. This isn't to say they all aren't amazing.

 

If the tool helps to get the job done in the most efficent least problematic way, and becomes almost invisible in the process, this is the best I could hope for.

 

I recently tracked on my laptop remote guitar and vocals. Using only the plugins in Ableton I was able to make a good mix.