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Yes. (Bitwig, Live and Aodix on my Surface Pro 3) but Renoise, on a big old iMac (OS 10.6.6) in the family room...a gas on that huge screen. See that's my problem I like all of them, each one in its spot.
Wow that's going back. Mark of the Unicorn was one of the first sequencer companies back in the 80's.
Same here. Reason 7 and my Mac Mini have collected dust over the past 2 years since I bought an iPad. It's not so much that I don't wanna use Reason. I just got tired of sitting at my desk after 20 years. However, my eyes are shot after all that time. So even the iPad is killing me. It's a good thing I still own a few pieces of hardware.
Ableton Live suite, which I bought after Link came out. For me it has the most creative potential of all the daws when creating and improvising. Being able to seamlessly use the iPad without midi clock is liberating too. And also Max for Live which adds on all sorts of possibilities.
I only started doing electronically generated music stuff when I got my first iPad in 2011, and all my audio work is pretty much only on iOS now.
But when I (rarely anymore) use a real-time clacky alphanumeric keyboard & mouse, I edit all my field-recorded foley audio in Soundtrack Pro on Mac.
I really adore the way my in-the-field recording gear has shrunk so drastically from two stuffed-brimfull big heavy messenger-ish-sized bags all strapped up with bungees and dragged on a trolley (2006), to a tiny zipped pack smaller than a shaving/toiletries bag (wow ten years later 2016 golly).
Nowadays hardly anybody ever notices my recording enough to ask me, what is that fluffy furball? I don't have to get quite so many letters of permission anymore, so much easier!
Ableton Live here.
Reaper, which works for both MAC and PC.
I use Logic and, sometimes, Reaper. I also have Live Lite, which came to me in bundle. When I was in love with Propellerhead (way less now), I got Reason Essentials, but I never came to love that modular way of doing things.
Logic is my preferred one, for its high quality plugins and, above all else, Alchemy.
I find useful the huge library of loops, not to use them as they are, but as sampling material (they are royalty free), e.g. stuff to elaborate in EXS24 and/or Alchemy and, possibly, export to Lyra in Auria or include in Moodscaper sound libraries.
Like others, I have mostly migrated to iOS for generating music. DAWs on desktop I use for demanding mixing/mastering tasks or when necessary for work (I'm in the media/games job)
+1
I have Reaper, but I don't tend to use it for music, mostly just to edit sounds for the day job. I do all my music on iOS, but one day, when I'm a far richer man than I am now, I might get a Macbook and Logic Pro. Just to see what the fuss is about.
Richard, you can stay happy with Reaper, IMO. It's a really good DAW, and if you beef it up with some right VSTs (as I love to say, go get Computer Magazine...), you have all that you need. Besides, if you are in the games job (I mean, for sounds too), a Mac is not so useful. I own a self assembled PC to run engines and middleware (and for gaming, ofc
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I'm settled into logic now, but also use a little bit of mixbus for flavour and maschine when I want to punish myself for being naughty. I'm looking forward to getting flstudio back when it reaches beta on mac, set up a vm with windows 8 for flstudio but rarely used it.
The thing that perturbs me lately is, well, hard to explain accurately, something like… the difference between performance and composition.
Maybe this paragraph where “Dave Brock explains”, in relation to the way the album Doremi Fasol Latido was recorded, is an insight into why I think the linearity of building rows of bricks at a time in LPX etc is not actually the way I should be doing things. Of course, if one is only one person, there’s the attraction of building a composition one layer at a time, but, well, I’m not sure it should have been developed into an enslaving paradigm that prizes the end result via what is an inexplicably acceptable excruciating tweak spiral.
FLStudio - have used it since version 3, so I've kind of grown up with it.
I also have Live and Reaper - I've used Live a bit, Reaper hardly at all.
Not sure if it's been said yet but Reason 9! If you guys haven't checked it out, do. It's a very visual DAW. Everything is done with CV and audio cables that you can patch yourself, and if you use it with a pen or large track pad it's a natural continuation of the iPad (IMO). I'd say for almost anything electronic or sound design based, I use Reason. For everything else, I use Cubase 8.5. Which is also insanely good. But yeah, definitely check Reason if you haven't looked into it yet. It's like a huge sonic sandbox!
This is an approach which appealed to me about using Ableton Live as my Daw where performance and composition can become part of the same thing, can produce much more unexpected results in my opinion.
Maybe the perfect combination is a PC desktop (well for 3D work it's essential) and an Apple laptop.
I have Reason 8. I love the hardware look and feel and I love many of the instruments, effects and utilities included and my rack extensions but as far as workflow goes I think Ableton is superior. But most of the times when I feel like making sounds I just grab the iPad.
Live 9, Reason 7, and StudioOne v3. I also dabble with FLStudio and Reaper 4. For those who are looking for a free DAW Tracktion 5 was just set free. LMMS is also a free app and it rocks on Linux.
How are you going about using the 2?
Ableton Live & Push 2
Trying to get as out of the box as possible and push 2 has received some decent updates so far...long may they develop it to its full potential
Presonus Studio One v2 here. After a couple of year hiatus, just pulled it out again. Wow
I use Digital Performer 9 on the Mac for recording live musicians; with multiple input tracks recorded simultaneously; using a MOTU 828 audio interface. DP also has the ability of duplicating the recording setup for multiple sequences within the same project. Great for multiple takes.
I also have Ableton Live 8; but don't use it as much anymore. I purchased MainStage from Apple. I don't use it much, but the extra plug-ins are worth the price. It has the full Alchemy desktop version as an AU; which then can also be used in Digital Performer or Ableton Live. The latest Garageband for Mac is also installed; but I hardly use it.
I started back in 1985 on a Mac Plus with Opcode Vision, which turned into Studio Vision Pro. When Gibson purchased Opcode and killed Studio Vision; I had to find another DAW: MOTU Digital Performer was the closest to it; with its great MIDI and audio editing capabilities. When the first iPad came out, I started in iOS music making. I kept upgrading to the latest iPad over the years and now have the iPad Pro 12.9"; and I became an appaholic. I probably have spent as much on apps as I did on iPad hardware.
I have yet to find a workflow that is awesome. I have logic, pro tools, and Ableton live lite (really want the suite but can't justify the purchase yet). I do tend to use my iPad more like an external sequencer or sound module and looper rather than a DAW. I only have a 16GB iPad which is mostly why. If I had a bigger iPad then I could see myself using my MAC less and less for music production.
Hmm, I don't believe it's possible. How do you do it?
I recently downloaded the free Tracktion5, but haven't installed it yet. Anyone else have Tracktion5? I'm hoping my old Win7 Laptop can run it better than it does Cubase Elements8 that I got last year. i do so much on iOS, I decided to get a Mac whenever the budget allows. From there, I'd get Logic I guess.
I've got Logic on my Mac, and Maschine on the PC but for the last year have only really been using Auria on the iPad.
Dave, get the Touchable app. If you not have it yet may be a pleasant surprise
+1 (but a MacBook Pro, the slim one is rather a toy)
Cubase Elements 7 on a PC. Cheap and surprisingly cheerful.