Vote for the best DAW in the world today!

Tesionman · Post by **Tesionman** » Thu Sep 18, 2014 4:06 am

Not that these polls matter.. but what the hell!

http://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/...d-today-606935

cheers

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Thu Sep 18, 2014 7:13 am

That's like voting for the most important liquid on the planet. Oil? Wine? Beer? No, it's water and that's how critical DP has become for my work now. And have you ever noticed that DAW backwards is WAD which is what all these plugs are starting to chip away at.

Good days for DP (as long as you ignore Facebook trolls. LOL)

bogmusic · Post by **bogmusic** » Thu Sep 18, 2014 8:45 am

Most important liquid on the planet? - Wee
Just Imagine if you couldn't relieve yourself

Best DAW? the one which you love so much you are too busy using it to notice others exist.

Shooshie · Post by **Shooshie** » Thu Sep 18, 2014 9:05 am

Did anyone else have the experience of Safari crashing after voting? It was weird, and led to my rebooting my Mac Pro and staring at logs for hours. Didn't figure out anything, though.

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Thu Sep 18, 2014 9:37 am

I just keep away from that riff raft, Shoosh.

bayswater · Post by **bayswater** » Thu Sep 18, 2014 4:33 pm

Shooshie wrote:Did anyone else have the experience of Safari crashing after voting? It was weird, and led to my rebooting my Mac Pro and staring at logs for hours. Didn't figure out anything, though.

Didn't happen to me. This site appears Windows oriented, and usually ranks Fruity Loops as the best DAW.

YouTube · Post by **James Steele** » Thu Sep 18, 2014 6:24 pm

Nope... didn't crash. Voted. Maybe I'll put a little banner ad to go vote in the upper left corner of the site (and have people get angry at me again for it!) LOL

Tesionman · Post by **Tesionman** » Sat Sep 27, 2014 12:01 pm

DP placed at the 11th position.

http://www.musicradar.com/tuition/tech/ ... -238905/10

Shooshie · Post by **Shooshie** » Sat Sep 27, 2014 12:32 pm

Omigosh! I'm using the 11th best DAW in the world! My folks'll be so proud!

Tesionman · Post by **Tesionman** » Sat Sep 27, 2014 12:45 pm

Shooshie wrote:Omigosh! I'm using the 11th best DAW in the world! My folks'll be so proud!

YouTube · Post by **James Steele** » Sun Sep 28, 2014 12:30 am

Haha! I blame myself! I never made a banner. But the funny thing is you realize just how irrelevant these things are. The mighty "industry-standard" ProTools is 9th. Ableton LIVE is 1st. Then the Grim Cheaper is #3. I also have to wonder if we're seeing the ascent of DAWs that cater to users who aren't so much musicians in the heretofore traditional sense, as much as they are "assemblers" slicing and dicing prerecorded loops.

There's another poll I'd like to see. Which DAW has the most users that are able to regularly deduct the cost of their computers and music software on their income taxes?

dewdman42 · Post by **dewdman42** » Sun Sep 28, 2014 11:15 am

An awful lot of serious musicians cannot be bothered to follow stuff like this on the internet. We don't see them on these forums and they don't respond to polls. So yea, this poll is biased from the get go to cater to the kinds of people that do.

I think kids today are really into electronic music more so then learning an instrument. A lot of people I know with kids into music, say their kids can't stop talking about EDM and dubstep. Ableton caters to them. FL Studio was also quite high on the list, which also caters to them. Reaper being that high was surprising to me also....I attribute that to my comment above... I've played around with Reaper many times and it does have a few cool features and smart thinking, but it also has just as much rough around the edges aspects.

I think its somewhat of a meaningless and pointless poll because the truth is there are a dozen or more excellent DAW's out there, each excellent in their own way and capable of producing awesome music. People have their favorites and internet junkies (like ourselves?) tend to gravitate towards particular favorites.

My view about DP is that certain insiders that I know and respect a lot have relied on DP for many years for certain key features (primarily related to film scoring) and its a very reliable platform that is easy on the eyes with awesome routing capabilities and for me one of the best reasons of all, I can use all MOTU hardware and be somewhat confident the software/hardware combo has been fully tested and will receive no finger pointing to other vendors if something goes wrong. But I haven't had any problems with it to need to ask.

I contrast that to forays I made with Logic, Cubase(windows), Sonar and some others. They all end up having some odd issues which I could ultimately never solve, but have not ever had that problem with DP.

I think ProTools would be my next choice and would expect equal reliability, however the MIDI features on DP blow it away, which are really important for me.

Tesionman · Post by **Tesionman** » Sun Sep 28, 2014 1:45 pm

James Steele wrote:I also have to wonder if we're seeing the ascent of DAWs that cater to users who aren't so much musicians in the heretofore traditional sense, as much as they are "assemblers" slicing and dicing prerecorded loops.

This!!!

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